List of cities in Kentucky
The following list shows all Kentucky municipalities and settlements . It contains both cities (the only form of self-governing communes in Kentucky) and census-designated places (CDP) .
The upper table shows the settlements that had more than 10,000 inhabitants at the 2010 census . Also listed are data from the previous 2000 census . The ranking corresponds to the 2010 figures.
Rank (2010) |
place | Residents 2010 |
Population 2000 |
Type | County (s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Louisville | 597,337 2 | 553,599 2 | CCC 1 | Jefferson |
2 | Lexington | 295,803 2 | 260,512 2 | CCC 1 | Fayette |
3 | Bowling green | 58,067 | 49,402 | City | Warren |
4th | Owensboro | 57,265 | 54.193 | City | Daviess |
5 | Covington | 40,640 | 42,942 | City | Kenton |
6th | Hopkinsville | 31,577 | 30,122 | City | Christian |
7th | Richmond | 31,364 | 27,559 | City | Madison |
8th | Florence | 29,951 | 23,576 | City | Boone |
9 | Georgetown | 29,098 | 18,384 | City | Scott |
10 | Henderson | 28,757 | 27,471 | City | Henderson |
11 | Elizabethtown | 28,531 | 22,589 | City | Hardin |
12 | Nicholasville | 28,015 | 20,698 | City | Jessamine |
13 | Jeffersontown | 26,595 | 26,542 | City | Jefferson |
14th | Frankfort | 25,527 | 27,730 | City | Franklin |
15th | Paducah | 25,024 | 26,336 | City | McCracken |
16 | Independence | 24,757 | 15.052 | City | Kenton |
17th | Radcliff | 21,688 | 22,083 | City | Hardin |
18th | Ashland | 21,684 | 21,980 | City | Boyd |
19th | Madisonville | 19,591 | 19,362 | City | Hopkins |
20th | Winchester | 18,368 | 16,770 | City | Clark |
21st | Erlanger | 18,082 | 16,676 | City | Kenton |
22nd | Murray | 17,741 | 15,259 | City | Calloway |
23 | St. Matthews | 17,472 | 17.304 | City | Jefferson |
24 | Fort Thomas | 16,325 | 16,495 | City | Campbell |
25th | Danville | 16,218 | 15,498 | City | Boyle |
26th | Burlington | 15,926 | 10,779 | CDP | Boone |
27 | Newport | 15,273 | 17.057 | City | Campbell |
28 | Shively | 15,264 | 14,888 | City | Jefferson |
29 | Shelbyville | 14,045 | 10.175 | City | Shelby |
30th | Glasgow | 14,028 | 13,078 | City | Ingots |
31 | Fort Campbell North | 13,685 | - | CDP | Christian |
32 | Berea | 13,561 | 11,219 | City | Madison |
33 | Bardstown | 11,700 | 10,792 | City | Nelson |
34 | Shepherdsville | 11,222 | 8,493 | City | Bullitt |
35 | Somerset | 11,196 | 11,397 | City | Pulaski |
36 | Lyndon | 11.002 | 10.091 | City | Jefferson |
37 | Lawrenceburg | 10,505 | 9,137 | City | Anderson |
38 | Middlesborough | 10,334 | 10,384 | City | Bell |
39 | Fort Knox | 10.124 | 12,377 | CDP | Bullitt , Hardin , Meade |
40 | Mayfield | 10,024 | 10,360 | City | Graves |
1 - Consolidated city – county , an amalgamation of the administrations of a large city and a county
2 - the specified number of inhabitants only applies to the city within the CCC
Other Kentucky Settlements in Alphabetical Order:
See also
Web links
Commons : Localities in Kentucky - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ United States Census 2010.Retrieved July 21, 2011
- ↑ US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 21, 2011