Highland Heights, Kentucky

Highland Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Highland Heights lost 365 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.5%. In the latest year it moved by -333. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 79th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Highland Heights is 60% of it.

Highland Heights covers 2.62 square miles of land, for 2,402 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Highland Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Highland Heights is in

All of Highland Heights's residents live in Campbell County, which had 94,008 residents in 2024. Highland Heights holds 6.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Highland Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Highland Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41076. 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 Highland Heights is

The Census internal point of Highland Heights is at 39.035500, -84.456600. Frankfort, the capital, is 62.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cold Spring, KY (6,499 people), 1.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cincinnati, OH, 7.7 miles away.

Daylight in Highland Heights

At 39.04° N, Highland Heights gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Highland Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Wilder, 1.4 miles away, with 3,091 people.