Murray, Kentucky

Murray population, 2020 to 2024

Murray added 787 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.4%. In the latest year it moved by +335. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Murray is 1.8 times that size.

Murray covers 11.69 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,588 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Murray is close to the typical town.

What county Murray is in

All of Murray's residents live in Calloway County, which had 38,975 residents in 2024. Murray holds 47.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Murray

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Murray by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 42071. 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 Murray is

The Census internal point of Murray is at 36.614200, -88.322100. Frankfort, the capital, is 218.2 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Paducah, KY (26,712 people), 36.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Clarksville, TN, 54.3 miles away.

Daylight in Murray

At 36.61° N, Murray 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 Murray

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Benton, 16.3 miles away, with 4,726 people.