Leitchfield, Kentucky

Leitchfield population, 2020 to 2024

Leitchfield added 118 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +68. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Leitchfield is 65% of it.

Leitchfield covers 10.76 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 641 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Leitchfield is less dense than the typical town.

What county Leitchfield is in

All of Leitchfield's residents live in Grayson County, which had 27,070 residents in 2024. Leitchfield holds 25.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Leitchfield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Leitchfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 42754. 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 Leitchfield is

The Census internal point of Leitchfield is at 37.486200, -86.284700. Frankfort, the capital, is 90.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Elizabethtown, KY (34,565 people), 26.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 58.4 miles away.

Daylight in Leitchfield

At 37.49° N, Leitchfield gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Leitchfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Hardinsburg, 21.7 miles away, with 2,487 people.