Richmond, Kentucky

Richmond population, 2020 to 2024

Richmond added 4,286 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.1%. In the latest year it moved by +1,071. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Richmond is 3.8 times that size.

Richmond covers 21.96 square miles of land and 0.25 of water, for 1,802 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Richmond is denser than the typical town.

What county Richmond is in

All of Richmond's residents live in Madison County, which had 99,582 residents in 2024. Richmond holds 39.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Richmond

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Richmond by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40475. 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 Richmond is

The Census internal point of Richmond is at 37.729100, -84.299400. Frankfort, the capital, is 44.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lexington-Fayette, KY (329,437 people), 23.2 miles away.

Daylight in Richmond

At 37.73° N, Richmond 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 Richmond

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Berea, 9.7 miles away, with 16,436 people.