Hazard, Kentucky

Hazard population, 2020 to 2024

Hazard lost 429 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -8.2%. In the latest year it moved by -75.

Hazard covers 7.46 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 645 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Hazard is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hazard is in

All of Hazard's residents live in Perry County, which had 26,739 residents in 2024. Hazard holds 18.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hazard

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hazard by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41701. 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 Hazard is

The Census internal point of Hazard is at 37.260500, -83.198200. Frankfort, the capital, is 111.8 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Big Stone Gap, VA (5,087 people), 36.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 87.5 miles away.

Daylight in Hazard

At 37.26° N, Hazard gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hazard

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Cumberland, 21.9 miles away, with 1,788 people.