Junction City, Kentucky

Junction City population, 2020 to 2024

Junction City added 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +24.

Junction City covers 2.01 square miles of land, for 1,159 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Junction City is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Junction City spans

Junction City crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 2,329 residents as follows; Boyle County holds 99.7% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Junction City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Junction City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40422, 40440. 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 Junction City is

The Census internal point of Junction City is at 37.585200, -84.789300. Frankfort, the capital, is 41.8 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Danville, KY (17,562 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 36.3 miles away.

Daylight in Junction City

At 37.59° N, Junction City gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Junction City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Danville, 3.8 miles away, with 17,562 people.