Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky

Lexington-Fayette population, 2020 to 2024

Lexington-Fayette added 6,809 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +4,813. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 39th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Lexington-Fayette is 31.3 times that size.

Lexington-Fayette covers 283.85 square miles of land and 1.71 of water, for 1,161 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Lexington-Fayette is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lexington-Fayette is in

All of Lexington-Fayette's residents live in Fayette County, which had 329,437 residents in 2024. Lexington-Fayette holds 100.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lexington-Fayette

16 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lexington-Fayette by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40502, 40503, 40504, 40505, 40507, 40508, 40509, 40510, 40511, 40513, 40514, 40515, 40516, 40517, 40526, 40536. 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 Lexington-Fayette is

The Census internal point of Lexington-Fayette is at 38.040700, -84.458300. Frankfort, the capital, is 24.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY (640,796 people), 65.2 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 325 m (1,066 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Lexington-Fayette

At 38.04° N, Lexington-Fayette gets about 14 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Lexington-Fayette daylight page.

Places near Lexington-Fayette

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Nicholasville, 11.8 miles away, with 33,458 people.