Jeffersontown, Kentucky

Jeffersontown population, 2020 to 2024

Jeffersontown added 117 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +176. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 57th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Jeffersontown is 2.8 times that size.

Jeffersontown covers 10.66 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 2,757 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Jeffersontown is denser than the typical town.

What county Jeffersontown is in

All of Jeffersontown's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 793,881 residents in 2024. Jeffersontown holds 3.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jeffersontown

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Jeffersontown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40220, 40223, 40299. 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 Jeffersontown is

The Census internal point of Jeffersontown is at 38.205500, -85.569700. Frankfort, the capital, is 37.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY (640,796 people), 5.0 miles away.

Daylight in Jeffersontown

At 38.21° N, Jeffersontown gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jeffersontown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Hurstbourne Acres, 1.5 miles away, with 2,005 people.