Kentucky · Census place 2136102

Heritage Creek, Kentucky

Heritage Creek is a city in Jefferson County, Kentucky with an estimated 1,241 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 187th largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,241
#187 of 206 in Kentucky
Change since 2020
+2.6%
+31 people
Land area
0.5 sq mi
Density
2,298 / sq mi
State median 1,588
Orange pin: Heritage Creek. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Frankfort.

Heritage Creek population, 2020 to 2024

Heritage Creek added 31 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +19.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,210. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Heritage Creek covers 0.54 square miles of land, for 2,298 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Heritage Creek is denser than the typical town.

What county Heritage Creek is in

All of Heritage Creek's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 793,881 residents in 2024. Heritage Creek holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Heritage Creek

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Heritage Creek by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40229. 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 Heritage Creek is

The Census internal point of Heritage Creek is at 38.090700, -85.609200. Frankfort, the capital, is 40.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Washington, KY (18,863 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 5.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
38.090700, -85.609200
DMS
38°05'26.52"N 85°36'33.12"W
UTM
16N 621960.9E 4216791.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
86CP39RR+78

Daylight in Heritage Creek

At 38.09° N, Heritage Creek gets about 14 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Heritage Creek

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Hebron Estates, 4.3 miles away, with 1,051 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Heritage Creek, KY?

1,241 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 31 (2.6%) from 1,210 in July 2020.

What county is Heritage Creek in?

Jefferson County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Heritage Creek?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 40229.

How far is Heritage Creek from Frankfort?

40.4 miles (65.1 km) in a straight line, heading E from Heritage Creek.

What is the nearest larger city to Heritage Creek?

Mount Washington, KY, with 18,863 residents, 4.4 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.