Shively, Kentucky

Shively population, 2020 to 2024

Shively added 211 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +242. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Shively is 1.5 times that size.

Shively covers 4.57 square miles of land, for 3,468 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Shively is denser than the typical town.

What county Shively is in

All of Shively's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 793,881 residents in 2024. Shively holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shively

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shively by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40216. 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 Shively is

The Census internal point of Shively is at 38.198800, -85.813900. Frankfort, the capital, is 51.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Albany, IN (37,652 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 9.3 miles away.

Daylight in Shively

At 38.20° N, Shively 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 Shively

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Audubon Park, 4.7 miles away, with 1,449 people.