# Cities in Kentucky by population, 2025

All 42 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `population`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Resident population. Spain and the EU: 1 January, with Spanish figures from the official municipal register (Padrón). Norway: Statistics Norway, 1 January. United States: Census Bureau population estimates for 1 July. United Kingdom regions and local authorities: Office for National Statistics estimates for 30 June. Other countries and the World: World Bank mid-year estimates, which count all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual estimates of the resident population for incorporated places, 1 July (Population Estimates Program, subcounty totals) (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Annual estimates of the resident population for incorporated places, 1 July (Population Estimates Program, subcounty totals). https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/population/kentucky-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Louisville, KY | 641,962 |
| 2 | Lexington, KY | 329,751 |
| 3 | Bowling Green, KY | 78,505 |
| 4 | Owensboro, KY | 60,892 |
| 5 | Covington, KY | 41,847 |
| 6 | Georgetown, KY | 40,883 |
| 7 | Richmond, KY | 40,663 |
| 8 | Elizabethtown, KY | 35,448 |
| 9 | Florence, KY | 34,018 |
| 10 | Nicholasville, KY | 33,857 |
| 11 | Hopkinsville, KY | 30,411 |
| 12 | Independence, KY | 30,198 |
| 13 | Jeffersontown, KY | 29,193 |
| 14 | Frankfort, KY | 28,657 |
| 15 | Henderson, KY | 27,822 |
| 16 | Paducah, KY | 26,730 |
| 17 | Radcliff, KY | 22,576 |
| 18 | Ashland, KY | 20,996 |
| 19 | Erlanger, KY | 20,158 |
| 20 | Winchester, KY | 19,514 |
| 21 | Madisonville, KY | 19,428 |
| 22 | Mount Washington, KY | 18,989 |
| 23 | Murray, KY | 18,964 |
| 24 | Shelbyville, KY | 18,453 |
| 25 | St. Matthews, KY | 17,868 |
| 26 | Danville, KY | 17,736 |
| 27 | Fort Thomas, KY | 17,142 |
| 28 | Berea, KY | 16,662 |
| 29 | Shively, KY | 15,895 |
| 30 | Glasgow, KY | 15,302 |
| 31 | Shepherdsville, KY | 14,931 |
| 32 | Bardstown, KY | 14,161 |
| 33 | Newport, KY | 13,998 |
| 34 | Somerset, KY | 12,695 |
| 35 | Lawrenceburg, KY | 12,329 |
| 36 | Campbellsville, KY | 11,783 |
| 37 | Lyndon, KY | 11,301 |
| 38 | Alexandria, KY | 10,994 |
| 39 | Franklin, KY | 10,759 |
| 40 | Versailles, KY | 10,734 |
| 41 | La Grange, KY | 10,669 |
| 42 | Paris, KY | 10,130 |