Kentucky · Census place 2182776
Whitesburg, Kentucky
Whitesburg is a city in Letcher County, Kentucky with an estimated 1,625 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 165th largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,625
- #165 of 206 in Kentucky
- Change since 2020
- -7.9%
- -140 people
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- + 0.07 sq mi water
- Density
- 519 / sq mi
- State median 1,588
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Whitesburg population, 2020 to 2024
Whitesburg lost 140 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -7.9%. In the latest year it moved by -26.
Whitesburg covers 3.13 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 519 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Whitesburg is less dense than the typical town.
What county Whitesburg is in
All of Whitesburg's residents live in Letcher County, which had 20,139 residents in 2024. Whitesburg holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Whitesburg
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Whitesburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41858. 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 Whitesburg is
The Census internal point of Whitesburg is at 37.117800, -82.823000. Frankfort, the capital, is 134.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jenkins, KY (1,757 people), 10.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 101.0 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 37.117800, -82.823000
- DMS
- 37°07'4.08"N 82°49'22.80"W
- UTM
- 17N 338039.7E 4109495.6N
- Geohash
- dnt55m44u
- Plus code
- 869V459G+4R
Daylight in Whitesburg
At 37.12° N, Whitesburg gets about 14 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Whitesburg
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Jenkins, 10.3 miles away, with 1,757 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Whitesburg, KY?
1,625 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 140 (7.9%) from 1,765 in July 2020.
What county is Whitesburg in?
Letcher County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Whitesburg?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 41858.
How far is Whitesburg from Frankfort?
134.4 miles (216.3 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Whitesburg.
What is the nearest larger city to Whitesburg?
Jenkins, KY, with 1,757 residents, 10.3 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.