Louisville | City of Kentucky

Louisville is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County. The city's estimated population as of 2018 is listed as 557,789, with a population of 1,330,730 in the Louisville metropolitan area. The Louisville-Elizabethtown-Scottsburg, KY-IN Combined Statistical Area, which adds Hardin County, Kentucky, LaRue County, Kentucky, and Scott County, Indiana, has a 2006 estimated population of 1,356,798. Louisville is most famous as the home of "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports": the Kentucky Derby, the widely watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.