Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah population, 2020 to 2024

Paducah lost 422 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by -49. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 70th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Paducah is 2.5 times that size.

Paducah covers 20.35 square miles of land and 0.45 of water, for 1,313 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Paducah is less dense than the typical town.

What county Paducah is in

All of Paducah's residents live in McCracken County, which had 67,550 residents in 2024. Paducah holds 39.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Paducah

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Paducah by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 42001, 42003. 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 Paducah is

The Census internal point of Paducah is at 37.070900, -88.644500. Frankfort, the capital, is 220.2 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cape Girardeau, MO (40,818 people), 52.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Clarksville, TN, 79.8 miles away.

Daylight in Paducah

At 37.07° N, Paducah gets about 14 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Paducah

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Calvert City, 13.8 miles away, with 2,517 people.