Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Harrodsburg population, 2020 to 2024

Harrodsburg added 319 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +123. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Harrodsburg is 90% of it.

Harrodsburg covers 6.92 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,372 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Harrodsburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Harrodsburg is in

All of Harrodsburg's residents live in Mercer County, which had 23,515 residents in 2024. Harrodsburg holds 40.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Harrodsburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Harrodsburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40330. 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 Harrodsburg is

The Census internal point of Harrodsburg is at 37.768100, -84.848800. Frankfort, the capital, is 29.0 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Danville, KY (17,562 people), 9.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 28.4 miles away.

Daylight in Harrodsburg

At 37.77° N, Harrodsburg gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Harrodsburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Burgin, 4.9 miles away, with 1,017 people.