Mount Sterling, Kentucky

Mount Sterling population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Sterling added 53 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +25. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 53rd; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Mount Sterling is 72% of it.

Mount Sterling covers 4.50 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,686 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Mount Sterling is close to the typical town.

What county Mount Sterling is in

All of Mount Sterling's residents live in Montgomery County, which had 28,771 residents in 2024. Mount Sterling holds 26.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Sterling

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Sterling by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40353. 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 Mount Sterling is

The Census internal point of Mount Sterling is at 38.065500, -83.948800. Frankfort, the capital, is 51.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Winchester, KY (19,413 people), 13.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 27.8 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Sterling

At 38.07° N, Mount Sterling 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 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Sterling

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Camargo, 5.6 miles away, with 1,048 people.