Winchester, Kentucky Winchester, Kentucky The Clark County Court House clock The Clark County Court House clock Location of Winchester, Kentucky Location of Winchester, Kentucky State Kentucky Winchester is a home rule-class town/city in and the governmental center of county of Clark County, Kentucky, United States. The populace was 18,368 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Winchester is positioned northwest of the center of Clark County, 18 miles (29 km) east of Lexington and 15 miles (24 km) west of Mt.
Kentucky Route 1958 (Bypass Road) is an outer loop around the town.
Kentucky Route 627 (Boonesborough Road) leads towards Richmond, 21 miles (34 km) to the south and Paris to the north.
Route 60 (Winchester-Lexington Road/Lexington Avenue) runs through downtown Winchester.
The Mountain Parkway turns off I-64 just northeast of Winchester and leads 75 miles (121 km) east to Salyersville.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Winchester has a total region of 7.9 square miles (20.4 km2), of which 7.8 square miles (20.3 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.67%, is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Winchester has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Clark County Court House as viewed from Kentucky Route 627 Clark County Court House Winchester Opera House There were 7,400 housing units at an average density of 968.0 per square mile (373.7/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 88.94% White, 8.83% African American, 0.22% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.81% from other competitions, and 0.94% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.9% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,254, and the median income for a family was $36,797.
About 13.1% of families and 15.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 21.1% of those under age 18 and 14.4% of those age 65 or over.
East Kentucky Power Cooperative 300 1941 Winchester has been home to a several higher education establishments.
Kentucky Wesleyan College was positioned in the town/city from 1890 to 1954.
When Kentucky Wesleyan left, the small-town Churches of Christ organized Southeastern Christian College on the former Kentucky Wesleyan campus.
Today, Clark County is home to the Winchester Campus of Bluegrass Community and Technical College.
George Rogers Clark High School is the city's only enhance high school.
Winchester has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Winchester city, Kentucky".
History of Kentucky.
"Winchester, Kentucky Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia.
University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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