List of cities in Kentucky

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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 BullittHardinMeade
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

  1. United States Census 2010.Retrieved July 21, 2011
  2. US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 21, 2011