#1Richmond
Madison County35,164 in 2020·40,663 in 2025·+5,499 people
Richmond, #1 on this list · Photo: FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore · CC BY-SA 4.0Kentucky rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in Kentucky
Richmond has grown fastest of Kentucky’s 125 towns of 2,500+: up 15.6% from 35,164 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 40,663 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +2.1%; 40 of the 125 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+15.6%
#2Elizabethtown
Hardin County31,388 in 2020·35,448 in 2025·+4,060 people
Crescent Springs
Kenton County4,271 in 2020·4,708 in 2025·+437 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Kentucky?
Richmond (Madison County): it grew 15.6%, from 35,164 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 40,663 in July 2025. Elizabethtown (+12.9%) and Crescent Springs (+10.2%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (125 in Kentucky). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Kentucky page.
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