Owensboro, Kentucky

Owensboro population, 2020 to 2024

Owensboro added 391 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +281. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 55th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Owensboro is 5.8 times that size.

Owensboro covers 21.30 square miles of land and 1.45 of water, for 2,849 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Owensboro is denser than the typical town.

What county Owensboro is in

All of Owensboro's residents live in Daviess County, which had 104,457 residents in 2024. Owensboro holds 58.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Owensboro

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Owensboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 42301, 42303. 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 Owensboro is

The Census internal point of Owensboro is at 37.757200, -87.117400. Frankfort, the capital, is 125.7 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Evansville, IN (115,395 people), 27.8 miles away.

Daylight in Owensboro

At 37.76° N, Owensboro gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Owensboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Lewisport, 16.8 miles away, with 1,743 people.