Nicholasville, Kentucky

Nicholasville population, 2020 to 2024

Nicholasville added 2,327 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.5%. In the latest year it moved by +705. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Nicholasville is 3.2 times that size.

Nicholasville covers 15.21 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 2,200 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Nicholasville is denser than the typical town.

What county Nicholasville is in

All of Nicholasville's residents live in Jessamine County, which had 56,495 residents in 2024. Nicholasville holds 59.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nicholasville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Nicholasville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40356. 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 Nicholasville is

The Census internal point of Nicholasville is at 37.892300, -84.565600. Frankfort, the capital, is 26.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lexington-Fayette, KY (329,437 people), 11.8 miles away.

Daylight in Nicholasville

At 37.89° N, Nicholasville gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Nicholasville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Wilmore, 5.5 miles away, with 6,268 people.