Paris, Kentucky

Paris population, 2020 to 2024

Paris lost 9 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +46. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Paris is 97% of it.

Paris covers 7.95 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,281 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Paris is less dense than the typical town.

What county Paris is in

All of Paris's residents live in Bourbon County, which had 20,333 residents in 2024. Paris holds 50.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Paris

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Paris by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40361. 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 Paris is

The Census internal point of Paris is at 38.200200, -84.272700. Frankfort, the capital, is 32.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Winchester, KY (19,413 people), 14.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 14.9 miles away.

Daylight in Paris

At 38.20° N, Paris gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Paris

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Cynthiana, 12.7 miles away, with 6,557 people.