West Buechel, Kentucky

West Buechel population, 2020 to 2024

West Buechel added 23 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +18.

West Buechel covers 0.64 square miles of land, for 2,177 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so West Buechel is denser than the typical town.

What county West Buechel is in

All of West Buechel's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 793,881 residents in 2024. West Buechel holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in West Buechel

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps West Buechel by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40218. 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 West Buechel is

The Census internal point of West Buechel is at 38.194200, -85.667600. Frankfort, the capital, is 43.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY (640,796 people), 2.3 miles away.

Daylight in West Buechel

At 38.19° N, West Buechel 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 West Buechel

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Watterson Park, 0.8 miles away, with 1,027 people.