Pikeville, Kentucky

Pikeville population, 2020 to 2024

Pikeville lost 360 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.7%. In the latest year it moved by -82. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 76th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Pikeville is 70% of it.

Pikeville covers 20.76 square miles of land and 0.23 of water, for 355 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Pikeville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pikeville is in

All of Pikeville's residents live in Pike County, which had 55,430 residents in 2024. Pikeville holds 13.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pikeville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pikeville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41501. 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 Pikeville is

The Census internal point of Pikeville is at 37.476900, -82.528800. Frankfort, the capital, is 137.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Abingdon, VA (8,316 people), 61.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 112.3 miles away.

Daylight in Pikeville

At 37.48° N, Pikeville gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pikeville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Coal Run Village, 4.1 miles away, with 1,596 people.