Morehead, Kentucky

Morehead population, 2020 to 2024

Morehead lost 366 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +36. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 78th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Morehead is 64% of it.

Morehead covers 9.68 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 701 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Morehead is less dense than the typical town.

What county Morehead is in

All of Morehead's residents live in Rowan County, which had 24,675 residents in 2024. Morehead holds 27.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Morehead

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Morehead by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40351. 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 Morehead is

The Census internal point of Morehead is at 38.190000, -83.449100. Frankfort, the capital, is 77.4 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Sterling, KY (7,588 people), 28.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 55.8 miles away.

Daylight in Morehead

At 38.19° N, Morehead gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Morehead

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Owingsville, 17.0 miles away, with 1,589 people.