Walton, Kentucky

Walton population, 2020 to 2024

Walton added 299 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.4%. In the latest year it moved by +104. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Walton is 55% of it.

Walton covers 4.76 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,219 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Walton is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Walton spans

Walton crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 5,803 residents as follows; Boone County holds 93.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Walton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Walton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41094. 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 Walton is

The Census internal point of Walton is at 38.862400, -84.615000. Frankfort, the capital, is 48.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Union, KY (7,874 people), 6.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cincinnati, OH, 20.1 miles away.

Daylight in Walton

At 38.86° N, Walton gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Walton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Crittenden, 5.2 miles away, with 4,125 people.