St. Matthews, Kentucky

St. Matthews population, 2020 to 2024

St. Matthews added 245 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +219. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 47th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so St. Matthews is 1.7 times that size.

St. Matthews covers 4.41 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 4,038 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so St. Matthews is denser than the typical town.

What county St. Matthews is in

All of St. Matthews's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 793,881 residents in 2024. St. Matthews holds 2.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in St. Matthews

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap St. Matthews by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40207, 40222. 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 St. Matthews is

The Census internal point of St. Matthews is at 38.249300, -85.637800. Frankfort, the capital, is 41.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jeffersontown, KY (29,388 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 5.8 miles away.

Daylight in St. Matthews

At 38.25° N, St. Matthews 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 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near St. Matthews

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Beechwood Village, 0.7 miles away, with 1,293 people.