Menifee County area

Population and density of Menifee County

The Census Bureau estimates that 6,430 people lived in Menifee County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,780 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #113 of 120 in Kentucky. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 6,113, the population has grown by 317 (+5.2%), compared with +2.2% for Kentucky as a whole.

With 203.5 square miles of land, that is 32 people per square mile (12 per km²), placing Menifee County #1,957 nationally for density and #105 in Kentucky. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Kentucky median is 59. Put another way, there are about 20 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Menifee County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Menifee County. Together they are home to 625 people (9.7%); the other 5,805 (90.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Frenchburg city, with 625 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Menifee County is an outlying county of the Mount Sterling, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 48,428 residents on 678.9 square miles of land; Menifee County accounts for 30% of the land and 13.3% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #319 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #237 by population. It belongs to the Lexington-Fayette--Richmond--Frankfort, KY Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Menifee County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

4031640322403464037140387

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Menifee County

Menifee County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Morgan County (381.1 mi²) and the smallest is Powell County (179 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Menifee County forms a block of 1,741 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.7%.

How big is Menifee County compared with U.S. states?

Menifee County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 5.1 times as much. Kentucky’s county land could hold about 194 areas the size of Menifee County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 14.3 miles (23 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Menifee County?

Menifee County has more land than 231 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Menifee County at #3,012 nationally by total area, 21 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 1.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2%. The two percentages are within 0.1 percentage points of each other. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Menifee County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.