Kentucky: county data, all 120 of them.
Every Kentucky county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the Kentucky statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.
- Counties
- 120
- Population
- 4,534,824
- Land area
- 39,485 sq mi
- Establishments
- 93,602
- Combined county GDP
- $295.38 bn
- SBA approvals recorded
- 3,685
Read this first
This is a county directory, not a state guide.
The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.
What is missing is the Kentucky legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for Kentucky, and no such pack exists yet.
Why there is no state guide here
You cannot write Kentucky zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.
Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.
Counties
All 120 Kentucky county-equivalents.
| Geography | Population | Median income | Establishments | County GDP | SBA approvals | Land area, sq mi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adair County | 19,089 | $53,553 | 331 | $570.2 m | 6 | 405 |
| Allen County | 21,293 | $61,403 | 256 | $616.4 m | 11 | 344 |
| Anderson County | 24,353 | $74,488 | 352 | $814.7 m | 24 | 202 |
| Ballard County | 7,654 | $66,164 | 155 | $354.2 m | 1 | 247 |
| Barren County | 44,938 | $50,628 | 853 | $1.87 bn | 23 | 488 |
| Bath County | 12,851 | $56,541 | 149 | $260.7 m | 4 | 279 |
| Bell County | 23,509 | $31,354 | 436 | $997.4 m | 8 | 359 |
| Boone County | 139,841 | $99,414 | 3,163 | $16.78 bn | 221 | 246 |
| Bourbon County | 20,240 | $61,354 | 382 | $1.31 bn | 19 | 290 |
| Boyd County | 47,911 | $61,118 | 1,169 | $3.76 bn | 35 | 160 |
| Boyle County | 30,941 | $61,159 | 780 | $1.76 bn | 15 | 180 |
| Bracken County | 8,444 | $66,319 | 98 | $219.5 m | 8 | 206 |
| Breathitt County | 13,276 | $34,808 | 149 | $306.9 m | 3 | 492 |
| Breckinridge County | 20,881 | $55,843 | 283 | $540.7 m | 3 | 567 |
| Bullitt County | 84,027 | $80,558 | 1,308 | $3.82 bn | 57 | 297 |
| Butler County | 12,393 | $56,092 | 190 | $409.3 m | 3 | 426 |
| Caldwell County | 12,618 | $59,583 | 266 | $543.0 m | 5 | 345 |
| Calloway County | 38,224 | $52,706 | 906 | $1.91 bn | 23 | 385 |
| Campbell County | 93,426 | $77,567 | 1,743 | $5.05 bn | 118 | 151 |
| Carlisle County | 4,762 | $62,439 | 80 | $264.6 m | 2 | 189 |
| Carroll County | 10,954 | $56,466 | 233 | $2.46 bn | 11 | 129 |
| Carter County | 26,341 | $51,235 | 389 | $670.6 m | 4 | 409 |
| Casey County | 15,914 | $45,510 | 235 | $480.0 m | 1 | 444 |
| Christian County | 72,069 | $55,494 | 1,290 | $7.87 bn | 28 | 718 |
| Clark County | 37,192 | $64,348 | 784 | $2.04 bn | 28 | 252 |
| Clay County | 19,921 | $40,900 | 229 | $454.8 m | 4 | 469 |
| Clinton County | 9,202 | $44,844 | 175 | $465.7 m | 2 | 197 |
| Crittenden County | 8,979 | $46,656 | 143 | $246.1 m | 1 | 360 |
| Cumberland County | 5,948 | $40,000 | 104 | $252.9 m | None recorded | 305 |
| Daviess County | 103,648 | $68,214 | 2,385 | $6.15 bn | 90 | 458 |
| Edmonson County | 12,355 | $54,937 | 130 | $250.3 m | 4 | 303 |
| Elliott County | 7,307 | $45,776 | 38 | $110.1 m | None recorded | 234 |
| Estill County | 14,035 | $46,051 | 179 | $291.9 m | 2 | 253 |
| Fayette County | 323,725 | $69,479 | 9,295 | $28.91 bn | 366 | 284 |
| Fleming County | 15,323 | $49,307 | 255 | $434.8 m | 13 | 349 |
| Floyd County | 35,224 | $41,279 | 700 | $1.40 bn | 19 | 393 |
| Franklin County | 51,842 | $65,298 | 1,278 | $4.57 bn | 20 | 208 |
| Fulton County | 6,409 | $38,217 | 105 | $286.3 m | 1 | 206 |
| Gallatin County | 8,769 | $63,346 | 84 | $461.4 m | 3 | 101 |
| Garrard County | 17,568 | $63,087 | 251 | $431.8 m | 11 | 230 |
| Grant County | 25,418 | $69,178 | 386 | $784.0 m | 18 | 258 |
| Graves County | 36,630 | $50,772 | 668 | $1.75 bn | 26 | 552 |
| Grayson County | 26,707 | $50,757 | 431 | $996.8 m | 8 | 497 |
| Green County | 11,369 | $46,798 | 179 | $238.9 m | 3 | 286 |
| Greenup County | 35,501 | $60,751 | 466 | $1.08 bn | 12 | 344 |
| Hancock County | 9,034 | $65,464 | 136 | $899.7 m | 1 | 188 |
| Hardin County | 111,942 | $67,647 | 2,253 | $7.34 bn | 62 | 623 |
| Harlan County | 25,772 | $41,693 | 370 | $759.8 m | 1 | 466 |
| Harrison County | 19,140 | $66,442 | 297 | $710.3 m | 16 | 306 |
| Hart County | 19,603 | $52,285 | 276 | $843.3 m | 2 | 412 |
| Henderson County | 44,280 | $58,851 | 966 | $2.76 bn | 24 | 437 |
| Henry County | 15,856 | $63,347 | 212 | $476.3 m | 11 | 286 |
| Hickman County | 4,439 | $60,867 | 68 | $280.4 m | 1 | 242 |
| Hopkins County | 45,119 | $56,815 | 882 | $2.66 bn | 13 | 542 |
| Jackson County | 13,086 | $40,000 | 109 | $206.9 m | None recorded | 345 |
| Jefferson County | 783,022 | $69,866 | 20,164 | $78.80 bn | 966 | 380 |
| Jessamine County | 54,588 | $74,576 | 1,353 | $3.05 bn | 64 | 172 |
| Johnson County | 22,334 | $44,904 | 351 | $619.4 m | 8 | 262 |
| Kenton County | 171,288 | $80,548 | 3,297 | $12.39 bn | 267 | 160 |
| Knott County | 13,830 | $41,761 | 155 | $273.8 m | 1 | 352 |
| Knox County | 29,865 | $32,527 | 449 | $836.8 m | 13 | 386 |
| Larue County | 15,107 | $67,067 | 221 | $313.9 m | 2 | 262 |
| Laurel County | 62,983 | $57,771 | 1,272 | $2.97 bn | 33 | 434 |
| Lawrence County | 16,077 | $46,772 | 207 | $538.7 m | 7 | 416 |
| Lee County | 7,339 | $37,568 | 90 | $160.5 m | 1 | 209 |
| Leslie County | 10,079 | $35,934 | 88 | $196.8 m | 5 | 401 |
| Letcher County | 20,808 | $41,793 | 277 | $538.8 m | 6 | 338 |
| Lewis County | 12,965 | $46,838 | 114 | $251.8 m | 1 | 483 |
| Lincoln County | 24,504 | $52,440 | 304 | $595.6 m | 8 | 334 |
| Livingston County | 8,903 | $58,984 | 136 | $519.3 m | 2 | 313 |
| Logan County | 27,986 | $60,382 | 486 | $1.33 bn | 8 | 552 |
| Lyon County | 8,900 | $65,066 | 171 | $332.3 m | 2 | 214 |
| Madison County | 95,769 | $63,351 | 1,808 | $4.44 bn | 72 | 437 |
| Magoffin County | 11,348 | $33,080 | 156 | $212.5 m | 3 | 308 |
| Marion County | 19,749 | $59,627 | 353 | $1.28 bn | 11 | 343 |
| Marshall County | 31,743 | $65,831 | 734 | $1.76 bn | 23 | 301 |
| Martin County | 11,027 | $37,042 | 137 | $290.3 m | 2 | 230 |
| Mason County | 16,956 | $52,178 | 404 | $1.54 bn | 15 | 240 |
| McCracken County | 67,564 | $64,373 | 2,061 | $6.99 bn | 66 | 249 |
| McCreary County | 16,867 | $33,750 | 157 | $348.9 m | 2 | 427 |
| McLean County | 9,114 | $65,596 | 161 | $345.2 m | 2 | 252 |
| Meade County | 30,158 | $74,355 | 362 | $1.00 bn | 11 | 305 |
| Menifee County | 6,230 | $45,096 | 60 | $115.0 m | 1 | 204 |
| Mercer County | 23,028 | $64,824 | 359 | $1.15 bn | 16 | 249 |
| Metcalfe County | 10,425 | $51,473 | 118 | $254.0 m | 1 | 290 |
| Monroe County | 11,269 | $51,280 | 209 | $454.6 m | 4 | 329 |
| Montgomery County | 28,395 | $56,396 | 560 | $1.38 bn | 32 | 197 |
| Morgan County | 14,053 | $47,913 | 160 | $377.7 m | 3 | 381 |
| Muhlenberg County | 30,591 | $51,927 | 537 | $1.54 bn | 8 | 467 |
| Nelson County | 47,606 | $69,562 | 1,023 | $2.39 bn | 31 | 418 |
| Nicholas County | 7,708 | $59,531 | 82 | $130.6 m | None recorded | 195 |
| Ohio County | 23,735 | $57,798 | 371 | $1.08 bn | 2 | 587 |
| Oldham County | 69,257 | $122,497 | 1,404 | $3.01 bn | 80 | 187 |
| Owen County | 11,330 | $61,134 | 133 | $262.7 m | 4 | 351 |
| Owsley County | 3,971 | $22,188 | 42 | $68.9 m | 1 | 197 |
| Pendleton County | 14,723 | $64,669 | 172 | $410.9 m | 9 | 277 |
| Perry County | 27,499 | $42,181 | 556 | $1.29 bn | 1 | 340 |
| Pike County | 56,727 | $44,312 | 1,109 | $2.67 bn | 61 | 787 |
| Powell County | 13,038 | $40,309 | 212 | $336.7 m | 5 | 179 |
| Pulaski County | 65,897 | $51,898 | 1,454 | $3.03 bn | 31 | 658 |
| Robertson County | 2,283 | $51,830 | 24 | $41.7 m | 1 | 100 |
| Rockcastle County | 16,163 | $48,862 | 209 | $431.6 m | 4 | 317 |
| Rowan County | 24,578 | $54,321 | 532 | $1.07 bn | 10 | 280 |
| Russell County | 18,221 | $44,738 | 353 | $1.05 bn | 2 | 254 |
| Scott County | 59,536 | $85,158 | 1,058 | $4.50 bn | 62 | 282 |
| Shelby County | 49,096 | $82,604 | 1,129 | $2.41 bn | 80 | 380 |
| Simpson County | 19,972 | $59,858 | 422 | $1.23 bn | 14 | 234 |
| Spencer County | 20,193 | $102,618 | 255 | $444.7 m | 16 | 187 |
| Taylor County | 26,397 | $60,456 | 631 | $1.16 bn | 8 | 266 |
| Todd County | 12,469 | $61,103 | 208 | $568.8 m | 4 | 374 |
| Trigg County | 14,315 | $59,857 | 231 | $464.9 m | 6 | 441 |
| Trimble County | 8,550 | $66,027 | 86 | $735.7 m | 4 | 152 |
| Union County | 13,260 | $60,327 | 249 | $1.15 bn | 4 | 343 |
| Warren County | 140,918 | $65,794 | 3,076 | $11.13 bn | 114 | 542 |
| Washington County | 12,140 | $61,616 | 251 | $468.0 m | 1 | 297 |
| Wayne County | 19,602 | $45,739 | 284 | $560.2 m | 5 | 458 |
| Webster County | 12,842 | $59,628 | 202 | $539.4 m | 1 | 332 |
| Whitley County | 36,920 | $44,615 | 629 | $1.56 bn | 13 | 438 |
| Wolfe County | 6,443 | $30,417 | 96 | $157.4 m | None recorded | 222 |
| Woodford County | 27,279 | $83,788 | 618 | $1.64 bn | 50 | 189 |
The register
Every source behind these 120 pages.
| Source | Period covered | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates | 2020-2024 5-year | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024 | Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024 | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2 | CAGDP2, through 2024 | US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain |
| US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet | 2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001 | US EPA, public domain |
| FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status Book | Community Status Book, as retrieved | FEMA OpenFEMA, public domain |
| US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release | FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30 | FOIA release, public domain |
| US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release | FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30 | FOIA release, public domain |
| US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices | TIGER county boundaries | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns | 2023 | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages | 2024 annual averages | US BLS, public domain |
| US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey | 2024 annual | US Census Bureau, public domain |
| US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows | 2021 to 2022 filing years | IRS SOI, public domain |