Hosting an event in Kentucky
Where to put an event in Kentucky. 18 cities, 201 venues, and the practical differences between them.
Kroger Field states the largest capacity in the state. The dots show what event67 would bill at that head count, and where the price stops.
Kentucky in figures
Kentucky is a state of United States of about 4.5 million people. Frankfort is the capital, though Louisville is the largest city.
Across the state the dataset records 20 exhibition or convention halls, 28 dedicated conference and function spaces, 43 arenas and stadiums, 21 theatres and concert halls and 89 independent event spaces.
Kentucky spans 3 time zones — Chicago time, Louisville time and New York time. Publish one zone in the app and say which it is, or half the room arrives an hour out.
The largest stated capacity anywhere in the state is 61,000, which is the practical ceiling for a single-room programme here.
- Capital
- Frankfort
- has a guide
- Largest city
- Louisville
- 641,000 people
- Cities covered
- 18
- 15 with their own guide
- Venues mapped
- 201
- 20 convention or exhibition
The largest venues in Kentucky
Ranked by stated capacity, then by how much the record can prove. Open data rarely publishes a capacity for a convention centre, so a hall may sit below an arena here without being the smaller room.
| Venue | City | Type | Stated capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kroger Field | Lexington | stadium | 61,000 |
| L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium | Louisville | stadium | 55,000 |
| Stoll Field/McLean Stadium | Lexington-Fayette | stadium | 37,000 |
| Rupp Arena | Lexington-Fayette | arena | 23,500 |
| Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium | Bowling Green | stadium | 22,113 |
| KFC Yum! Center | Louisville | arena | 22,090 |
| Roy Kidd Stadium | Lexington | stadium | 22,000 |
| Roy Stewart Stadium | Murray | stadium | 16,800 |
| Lynn Family Stadium | Louisville | stadium | 15,304 |
| Phil Simms Stadium | Meads | stadium | 10,000 |
| CFSB Center | Murray | stadium | 8,602 |
| Graham Stadium | Murray | stadium | 8,500 |
Kentucky city by city
18 in the dataset, largest first. Each guide covers that city's venues, its airport, its local time and a worked price for an event of that size.
| City | Population | Venues mapped |
|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 640,796 | 58 |
| Lexington-Fayette | 329,437 | 28 |
| Lexington | 320,347 | 15 |
| Meads | 288,649 | 11 |
| Bowling Green | 79,076 | 11 |
| Owensboro | 60,675 | 8 |
| Elizabethtown | 34,565 | 7 |
| Hopkinsville | 30,800 | 2 |
| Independence | 30,196 | 6 |
| Jeffersontown | 29,388 | 3 |
| Frankfort | 28,610 | 8 |
| Paducah | 26,712 | 5 |
| Madisonville | 19,502 | 5 |
| Murray | 18,567 | 11 |
| Shelbyville | 18,048 | 5 |
One more town has a venue worth its own guide
The town itself is too thinly mapped for a city guide, but the venue publishes enough to stand on its own.
Also in Kentucky, with nothing mapped yet to build a guide from: Harlan and Pineville. They appear here rather than as pages with three facts on them.
What an event costs here
Suppose 950 attendees claim their invite and open the app at a Kentucky event sized to Kroger Field in Lexington, the largest stated capacity in the Kentucky dataset. Here is exactly what event67 charges, with the free 50 taken off the top.
- activated attendees
- 950activated attendees
- billable, after the free 50
- 900billable, after the free 50
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $4,500for the whole event, at $5 each
Where this data comes from
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- Administrative attributes and the population figure from Wikidata, CC0 (Wikidata (P1082)).
- City populations are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
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What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
Which Kentucky city is best for a conference?
It depends on how many people you need to seat and how they arrive. Louisville has the deepest venue list in this state, while Frankfort, the capital, carries the government and association calendar. The table above ranks every covered city by how many venues are mapped in it, which is the closest proxy to choice you will get before you start calling.
How many event venues are there in Kentucky?
201 venues across 18 cities are mapped in this dataset, of which 20 are convention, exhibition or conference facilities. That is what open data records, not a complete registry — small function rooms inside hotels and community buildings are consistently under-mapped everywhere.
What does event67 cost for a Kentucky event?
950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
What is the biggest venue in Kentucky?
Kroger Field, at a stated 61,000. That is the practical ceiling for a single-room programme anywhere in the state; above it you are splitting the audience across buildings or looking outside Kentucky.
Does Kentucky span more than one time zone?
Yes — 3: America/Chicago, America/Kentucky/Louisville and America/New_York. Publish the schedule in the venue's zone, name the zone in the app, and every attendee's phone converts it correctly from there.
Keep reading
Start with a city
- Hosting an event in Louisville
58 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Lexington-Fayette
28 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Lexington
15 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Meads
11 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Bowling Green
11 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Owensboro
8 venues mapped
Running something in Kentucky?
Pick the city, then let the app do the schedule, the invites and the arrivals. Free for your first 50 activated attendees.