Williamsburg, Kentucky

Williamsburg population, 2020 to 2024

Williamsburg added 4 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +81. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 58th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Williamsburg is 51% of it.

Williamsburg covers 4.17 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,279 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Williamsburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Williamsburg is in

All of Williamsburg's residents live in Whitley County, which had 37,233 residents in 2024. Williamsburg holds 14.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Williamsburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Williamsburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40769. 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 Williamsburg is

The Census internal point of Williamsburg is at 36.738700, -84.165700. Frankfort, the capital, is 107.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Corbin, KY (7,891 people), 13.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 54.4 miles away.

Daylight in Williamsburg

At 36.74° N, Williamsburg gets about 14 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Williamsburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Corbin, 13.8 miles away, with 7,891 people.