Franklin, Kentucky

Franklin population, 2020 to 2024

Franklin added 317 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +47. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Franklin is 100% of it.

Franklin covers 15.08 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 698 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Franklin is less dense than the typical town.

What county Franklin is in

All of Franklin's residents live in Simpson County, which had 20,350 residents in 2024. Franklin holds 51.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Franklin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Franklin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 42134. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Franklin is

The Census internal point of Franklin is at 36.718000, -86.557600. Frankfort, the capital, is 137.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Portland, TN (13,651 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Nashville-Davidson, TN, 39.8 miles away.

Daylight in Franklin

At 36.72° N, Franklin gets about 14 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Franklin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Auburn, 13.2 miles away, with 1,674 people.