Kentucky · Census place 2143840

Lancaster, Kentucky

Lancaster is a city in Garrard County, Kentucky with an estimated 4,083 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 91st largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,083
#91 of 206 in Kentucky
Change since 2020
+4.6%
+178 people
Land area
2.5 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
1,620 / sq mi
State median 1,588
Orange pin: Lancaster. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Frankfort.

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Lancaster population, 2020 to 2024

Lancaster added 178 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +21.

3,90520203,98120214,00820224,06220234,0832024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,904. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Lancaster covers 2.52 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,620 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Lancaster is close to the typical town.

What county Lancaster is in

All of Lancaster's residents live in Garrard County, which had 18,040 residents in 2024. Lancaster holds 22.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lancaster

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lancaster by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40444. 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 Lancaster is

The Census internal point of Lancaster is at 37.617000, -84.581800. Frankfort, the capital, is 42.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Danville, KY (17,562 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 30.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
37.617000, -84.581800
DMS
37°37'1.20"N 84°34'54.48"W
UTM
16N 713427.2E 4166071.8N
Geohash
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Plus code
869QJC89+Q7

Daylight in Lancaster

At 37.62° N, Lancaster 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 Lancaster

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Stanford, 7.2 miles away, with 3,702 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Lancaster, KY?

4,083 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 178 (4.6%) from 3,905 in July 2020.

What county is Lancaster in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Lancaster?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 40444.

How far is Lancaster from Frankfort?

42.5 miles (68.4 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Lancaster.

What is the nearest larger city to Lancaster?

Danville, KY, with 17,562 residents, 10.7 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.