South Shore, Kentucky

South Shore population, 2020 to 2024

South Shore lost 26 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by -1.

South Shore covers 0.70 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 1,489 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so South Shore is close to the typical town.

What county South Shore is in

All of South Shore's residents live in Greenup County, which had 35,273 residents in 2024. South Shore holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in South Shore

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps South Shore by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41175. 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 South Shore is

The Census internal point of South Shore is at 38.721900, -82.964200. Frankfort, the capital, is 109.8 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Portsmouth, OH (17,489 people), 2.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 87.2 miles away.

Daylight in South Shore

At 38.72° N, South Shore gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near South Shore

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Greenup, 13.1 miles away, with 1,079 people.