Shepherdsville, Kentucky

Shepherdsville population, 2020 to 2024

Shepherdsville added 601 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +142. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 21st; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Shepherdsville is 1.4 times that size.

Shepherdsville covers 16.32 square miles of land and 0.29 of water, for 909 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Shepherdsville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shepherdsville is in

All of Shepherdsville's residents live in Bullitt County, which had 85,802 residents in 2024. Shepherdsville holds 17.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shepherdsville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shepherdsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40165. 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 Shepherdsville is

The Census internal point of Shepherdsville is at 37.981400, -85.702000. Frankfort, the capital, is 47.2 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Washington, KY (18,863 people), 9.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 13.0 miles away.

Daylight in Shepherdsville

At 37.98° N, Shepherdsville gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shepherdsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Hebron Estates, 5.1 miles away, with 1,051 people.