Kentucky · Census place 2183784

Windy Hills, Kentucky

Windy Hills is a city in Jefferson County, Kentucky with an estimated 2,471 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 127th largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,471
#127 of 206 in Kentucky
Change since 2020
+1.7%
+41 people
Land area
0.9 sq mi
Density
2,686 / sq mi
State median 1,588
Orange pin: Windy Hills. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Frankfort.

Windy Hills population, 2020 to 2024

Windy Hills added 41 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +32.

2,43020202,42020212,41620222,43920232,4712024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,430. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Windy Hills covers 0.92 square miles of land, for 2,686 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Windy Hills is denser than the typical town.

What county Windy Hills is in

All of Windy Hills's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 793,881 residents in 2024. Windy Hills holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Windy Hills

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Windy Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40207. 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 Windy Hills is

The Census internal point of Windy Hills is at 38.271700, -85.639600. Frankfort, the capital, is 41.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Graymoor-Devondale, KY (2,810 people), 1.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 7.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
38.271700, -85.639600
DMS
38°16'18.12"N 85°38'22.56"W
UTM
16N 619000.1E 4236836.5N
Geohash
dng1epphu
Plus code
86CP79C6+M5

Daylight in Windy Hills

At 38.27° N, Windy Hills 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 Windy Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Northfield, 1.0 miles away, with 1,014 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Windy Hills, KY?

2,471 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 41 (1.7%) from 2,430 in July 2020.

What county is Windy Hills in?

Jefferson County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Windy Hills?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 40207.

How far is Windy Hills from Frankfort?

41.9 miles (67.4 km) in a straight line, heading E from Windy Hills.

What is the nearest larger city to Windy Hills?

Graymoor-Devondale, KY, with 2,810 residents, 1.2 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.