Paintsville, Kentucky

Paintsville population, 2020 to 2024

Paintsville lost 182 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.2%. In the latest year it moved by -14.

Paintsville covers 6.63 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 623 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Paintsville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Paintsville is in

All of Paintsville's residents live in Johnson County, which had 22,098 residents in 2024. Paintsville holds 18.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Paintsville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Paintsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41222, 41240. 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 Paintsville is

The Census internal point of Paintsville is at 37.820300, -82.806000. Frankfort, the capital, is 115.5 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pikeville, KY (7,366 people), 28.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 91.3 miles away.

Daylight in Paintsville

At 37.82° N, Paintsville 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 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Paintsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Prestonsburg, 9.8 miles away, with 3,638 people.