Middlesborough, Kentucky

Middlesborough population, 2020 to 2024

Middlesborough lost 447 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.8%. In the latest year it moved by -74. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 77th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Middlesborough is 84% of it.

Middlesborough covers 7.38 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 1,206 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Middlesborough is less dense than the typical town.

What county Middlesborough is in

All of Middlesborough's residents live in Bell County, which had 23,051 residents in 2024. Middlesborough holds 38.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Middlesborough

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Middlesborough by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40965. 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 Middlesborough is

The Census internal point of Middlesborough is at 36.613500, -83.722500. Frankfort, the capital, is 125.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jefferson City, TN (9,013 people), 36.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 46.2 miles away.

Daylight in Middlesborough

At 36.61° N, Middlesborough gets about 14 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Middlesborough

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Pineville, 9.3 miles away, with 1,566 people.