{"id":3927,"date":"2023-06-12T21:55:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:59:37","slug":"campbell-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/campbell-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell County, Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campbell County is a county in Kentucky, United States, about 14 miles south of Cincinnati,<br \/>\nOhio, across the Ohio River. It had a population of 93,076 at the 2020 census, an estimated<br \/>\n93,426 by 2024, and covers 159 square miles (410 km2) centred near 38\u00b057\u2032N 84\u00b023\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Newport is the county seat, sharing that status with Alexandria since a 2010 Kentucky Court of<br \/>\nAppeals ruling gave both cities equal standing; Newport&#8217;s postal code is 41071. The county<br \/>\nholds 15 incorporated cities, 1 census-designated place and 3 unincorporated communities, and it<br \/>\nruns on Eastern Time. Its FIPS code is 21037.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Campbell County<\/h2>\n<p>Campbell County has 19 named places on record: 15 incorporated cities (two of them county<br \/>\nseats), 1 census-designated place (Claryville) and 3 unincorporated communities with no local<br \/>\ngovernment of their own. CDP stands for census designated place; Unincorp. covers crossroads<br \/>\ncommunities with no formal boundary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Fort Thomas<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>17,438<\/td>\n<td>41075<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Newport<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>14,150<\/td>\n<td>41071<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alexandria<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>10,341<\/td>\n<td>41001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Highland Heights<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>6,662<\/td>\n<td>41076<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cold Spring<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>6,216<\/td>\n<td>41076<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dayton<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>5,666<\/td>\n<td>41073<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bellevue<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>5,548<\/td>\n<td>41073<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Southgate<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>3,648<\/td>\n<td>41071<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wilder<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>3,176<\/td>\n<td>41071<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Claryville<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>2,992<\/td>\n<td>41001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Silver Grove<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,154<\/td>\n<td>41085<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Melbourne<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>458<\/td>\n<td>41059<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Crestview<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>452<\/td>\n<td>41076<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mentor<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>218<\/td>\n<td>41007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Woodlawn<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>212<\/td>\n<td>41071<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>California<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>83<\/td>\n<td>41007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brayville<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Camp Springs<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oneonta<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dayton and Bellevue sit side by side on the Ohio River and are often mistaken for one another;<br \/>\nDayton is the larger of the two by land area, Bellevue the older incorporation. Mentor and<br \/>\nCalifornia, the county&#8217;s two smallest cities, share the 41007 ZIP with each other despite<br \/>\nsitting several miles apart along the Ohio River&#8217;s eastern bend.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>41075 &mdash; Fort Thomas<\/li>\n<li>41071 &mdash; Newport (also serves Southgate, Wilder and Woodlawn)<\/li>\n<li>41072 &mdash; Newport post office boxes<\/li>\n<li>41001 &mdash; Alexandria (also serves Claryville)<\/li>\n<li>41076 &mdash; Highland Heights (also serves Cold Spring and Crestview)<\/li>\n<li>41099 &mdash; Highland Heights, a code exclusive to Northern Kentucky University<\/li>\n<li>41073 &mdash; Dayton and Bellevue<\/li>\n<li>41074 &mdash; Dayton and Bellevue post office boxes<\/li>\n<li>41085 &mdash; Silver Grove<\/li>\n<li>41059 &mdash; Melbourne<\/li>\n<li>41007 &mdash; Mentor and California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brayville, Camp Springs and Oneonta have no ZIP code of their own; mail there is delivered<br \/>\nunder the nearest incorporated city&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Campbell County lies in the Bluegrass region&#8217;s northern tip, where rolling hills meet the<br \/>\nOhio River floodplain. Of its 159 square miles, 151 are land and 8.1 are water, about 5.1<br \/>\npercent &mdash; the Ohio River forms the county&#8217;s entire northern edge, and the Licking<br \/>\nRiver runs along its western boundary with Kenton County before joining the Ohio at Newport.<br \/>\nThe county&#8217;s southern half, around Claryville and Grants Lick, is hillier and far less<br \/>\nbuilt up than its river cities.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton County, Ohio, lies across the Ohio River to the north; Clermont County, Ohio, borders<br \/>\nto the east; Pendleton County, Kentucky, lies to the south; and Kenton County, Kentucky, borders<br \/>\nto the west across the Licking River. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/hamilton-county-ohio\/\">Hamilton County<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/clermont-county\/\">Clermont County<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/pendleton-county\/\">Pendleton County<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/kenton-county\/\">Kenton County<\/a> all border Campbell<br \/>\ndirectly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Campbell County had a population of 93,076 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts<br \/>\nthe county near 93,426 residents as of 2024. Fort Thomas and Newport are by far the two largest<br \/>\ncommunities, together holding roughly a third of the county&#8217;s population. Median household<br \/>\nincome runs $77,567 (2024), well above Kentucky&#8217;s statewide figure of $61,118 (2023 ACS).<br \/>\nPopulation density works out to roughly 616 people per square mile of land, high for Kentucky<br \/>\noutside Louisville and Lexington, reflecting the county&#8217;s position inside the Cincinnati<br \/>\nmetropolitan area.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care and social assistance employs the most workers in the county, about 7,447 people,<br \/>\nfollowed by manufacturing at 4,890 and educational services at 4,371. St. Elizabeth Healthcare<br \/>\nruns a hospital campus in Fort Thomas, one of the county&#8217;s largest employers. Northern<br \/>\nKentucky University, in Highland Heights, enrolled 15,370 students in fall 2024 and anchors the<br \/>\ncounty&#8217;s education sector. Newport&#8217;s riverfront, built up since the 1990s around<br \/>\nNewport on the Levee and the Newport Aquarium, gives the county a tourism and retail base tied<br \/>\ndirectly to the Cincinnati riverfront across the water. Older river cities such as Bellevue and<br \/>\nDayton remain mostly residential, drawing Cincinnati commuters who cross the Ohio River daily.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Kentucky&#8217;s General Assembly formed Campbell County on 17 December 1794, carving it out of<br \/>\nScott, Harrison and Mason Counties. It was named for Colonel John Campbell (1735&#8211;1799), a<br \/>\nRevolutionary War soldier and Kentucky legislator. Newport was established as a town in 1795 and<br \/>\nincorporated as a city in 1834; Alexandria formally became a city in 1834 and was incorporated<br \/>\nin 1856.<\/p>\n<p>The US Army built Fort Thomas in 1890 on 111 acres General Philip Sheridan personally selected,<br \/>\nnaming it for General George Henry Thomas and predicting it would become the &#8220;West Point of<br \/>\nthe West.&#8221; The post served as a training depot, induction center and military hospital<br \/>\nthrough both world wars before most operations transferred to the Veterans Administration in<br \/>\n1946 and the post closed in 1964; the city of Fort Thomas, incorporated in 1914, grew up around<br \/>\nit and now occupies much of the former reservation. Newport, for decades known for illegal<br \/>\ngambling and nightclubs on Monmouth Street, cracked down on organized crime through the 1960s<br \/>\nand remade its riverfront as a family destination beginning in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 275 loops through the county&#8217;s north side and Interstate 471 crosses the Ohio<br \/>\nRiver from Newport into Cincinnati; US Route 27 runs north-south through Alexandria and Newport,<br \/>\nalong with Kentucky Routes 8, 9, 10 and 154.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cincinnati, Ohio &mdash; about 1 mile north of Newport, across the Ohio River<\/li>\n<li>Covington, Kentucky &mdash; about 3 miles west<\/li>\n<li>Independence, Kentucky &mdash; about 12 miles southwest<\/li>\n<li>Falmouth, Kentucky &mdash; about 15 miles south<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cincinnati\/Northern Kentucky International Airport, about 20 miles southwest in Boone County,<br \/>\nis the nearest major commercial airport. Amtrak&#8217;s Cardinal line stops at Cincinnati Union<br \/>\nTerminal, across the river from Newport, three days a week.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Campbell County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in Kentucky&#8217;s northern tip along the Ohio River, about 14 miles south of<br \/>\nCincinnati, bordered by Hamilton, Clermont, Pendleton and Kenton Counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Campbell County?<\/strong><br \/>\n93,076 at the 2020 census, with a 2024 estimate near 93,426.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Campbell County?<\/strong><br \/>\n159 square miles (410 km2), of which 151 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Campbell County?<\/strong><br \/>\nNewport and Alexandria are both county seats, a shared arrangement dating to a 2010 court<br \/>\nruling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Campbell County?<\/strong><br \/>\nFifteen incorporated cities, plus the Claryville census-designated place and three unincorporated<br \/>\ncommunities: Brayville, Camp Springs and Oneonta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Campbell County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n41001, 41007, 41059, 41071, 41072, 41073, 41074, 41075, 41076, 41085 and 41099.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Campbell County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nNewport&#8217;s riverfront district, home to the Newport Aquarium and Newport on the Levee, and<br \/>\nFort Thomas, an 1890 US Army post that gave its name to the city built on its grounds.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/kentucky\/\">Towns and villages in Kentucky<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campbell County is a county in Kentucky, United States, about 14 miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio, across the Ohio River. It had a population of 93,076 at the 2020 census, an estimated 93,426 by 2024, and covers 159 square miles (410 km2) centred near 38\u00b057\u2032N 84\u00b023\u2032W. 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