| City: | Nicholasville, Kentucky |
| County: | Jessamine County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 7:36:59 AM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | 859 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 37.8809, -84.5734 |
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ZIP code 40340 serves as a PO Box facility for Nicholasville, Kentucky, a city in Jessamine County. The post office maintains 232 PO Boxes that serve both residential and business customers throughout the area. With 191 business boxes in use, the facility functions as an important mail hub for local commerce. The ZIP doesn't include residential street delivery addresses—those are handled through 40356, which completely surrounds this postal facility.
Nicholasville sits about 12 miles south of Lexington in Kentucky's Bluegrass Region. The post office provides PO Box services while street addresses in the city use the neighboring ZIP code. This arrangement is common in small cities where dedicated PO Box facilities operate alongside standard delivery zones. Residents and businesses choose PO Boxes for convenience, security, or business needs rather than necessity, since street delivery is available through the adjacent ZIP code.
The single street record for S Main St represents the post office facility itself, where PO Box customers pick up mail. This isn't a delivery route but the physical location of the postal boxes.
ZIP Code 40340 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 8 business establishments, employing about 39 people with an annual payroll of $2,886,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 413Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 8Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $183,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $2,886,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 39Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 40340 is located in Jessamine County, Kentucky, within the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 30460) and Kentucky's 6th Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 517,378 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 40340. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | Lexington-Fayette, KYSource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 30460Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 517,378Source: Census |
| MSA: | Lexington, KY MSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 06Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 4292.72 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | --Source: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 2156136Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Nicholasville city; KentuckySource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 40340 belongs to, but we will update this once new district data is released. There are no public schools nor private schools with a mailing address in this ZIP Code. Listing Nearby schools instead. It also has 6 colleges, universities or post secondary education institutions nearby which would be a short commute to.
Our sources include trusted federal and licensed data from the United States Postal Service, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Center for Education Statistics, along with proprietary datasets created by ZIP-Codes.com. Data last updated on January 1, 2026.