Location, Nomenclature, Population and Ranking
Louisville is southeasterly situated along the border between Kentucky and Indiana, the Ohio River, in north-central Kentucky at the Falls of the Ohio. The Louisville metropolitan area is often referred to as Kentuckiana because it includes counties in Southern Indiana. A resident of Louisville is referred to as a Louisvillian. Although situated in a Southern state, Louisville is influenced by both Southern and Midwestern culture. It is sometimes referred to as either one of the northernmost Southern cities or as one of the southernmost Northern cities in the United States.
The settlement that became the city of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France, making Louisville one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Louisville – Southern Indiana metropolitan area is considered part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis.
On November 7, 2000, voters in Louisville and Jefferson County approved a referendum to merge into a consolidated city-county government named Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government (official long form) and Louisville Metro (official short form), which took effect January 6, 2003.
As of the 2010 Census, Louisville in its consolidated form had a population of 741,096; in 2007, it was the 17th-largest city in the nation, and the balance had a population of 557,224 in 2008.
The "balance" is a designation created by the Census Bureau to describe the portion of Louisville-Jefferson County that does not include any of the semi-independent separately incorporated places located within Louisville Metro (such as Anchorage, Middletown or Jeffersontown). Census methodology uses balance values in comparing consolidated cities to other cities for ranking purposes.
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1790 | 200 |
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| 1800 | 359 | 79.5% | |
| 1810 | 1,357 | 278.0% | |
| 1820 | 4,012 | 195.7% | |
| 1830 | 10,341 | 157.8% | |
| 1840 | 21,210 | 105.1% | |
| 1850 | 43,194 | 103.6% | |
| 1860 | 68,033 | 57.5% | |
| 1870 | 100,753 | 48.1% | |
| 1880 | 123,758 | 22.8% | |
| 1890 | 161,129 | 30.2% | |
| 1900 | 204,731 | 27.1% | |
| 1910 | 223,928 | 9.4% | |
| 1920 | 234,891 | 4.9% | |
| 1930 | 307,745 | 31.0% | |
| 1940 | 319,077 | 3.7% | |
| 1950 | 369,129 | 15.7% | |
| 1960 | 390,639 | 5.8% | |
| 1970 | 361,472 | −7.5% | |
| 1980 | 298,451 | −17.4% | |
| 1990 | 269,063 | −9.8% | |
| 2000 | 256,231 | −4.8% | |
| 2010 | 741,096 | 189.2% | |
| Sources: 2010 and later are post-merger |
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