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Pembroke
Kentuckycity
Pembroke
Total population
732
Median home value
$191,200
Bachelor's+
Median income
$70,804
Founded
1836
Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Pembroke is a home rule-class city in Christian County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 865 as of the 2020 census, stagnant from 869 as of the 2010 U.S. census. It is part of the Clarksville, Tennessee metropolitan area.
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History
The town was settled in 1836 and named for Pembroke Somerset, Esq., a character in Jane Porter's 1803 novel Thaddeus of Warsaw, by Dr. Lunsford Lindsay, a local store owner. It was incorporated as a city in 1869.
Geography
Pembroke is located in eastern Christian County at (36.774633, -87.356361). U.S. Route 41 passes through the town as Nashville Street, leading northwest to Hopkinsville, the county seat, and southeast to Guthrie at the Tennessee border. According to the United States Census Bureau, Pembroke has a total area of , of which , or 0.42%, is water.
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Source: US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.
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Forecast for Pembroke, KY from NOAA NWS API.
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Largest nearby schools
- Hopkinsville High SchoolHigh · Hopkinsville · 962 students · 16:1 ratio
- Pembroke Elementary SchoolElementary · Pembroke · 660 students · 15.7:1 ratio
- Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary SchoolElementary · Hopkinsville · 580 students · 14.9:1 ratio
- Hopkinsville Middle SchoolMiddle · Hopkinsville · 549 students · 17.2:1 ratio
- Bluegrass Learning AcademyHigh · Hopkinsville · 122 students · 30.5:1 ratio
- Cumberland Hall SchoolOther · Hopkinsville · 28 students · 9.3:1 ratio
- Christian County Day TreatmentHigh · Hopkinsville · 17 students · 5.7:1 ratio
Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • US Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates)
- • NOAA National Weather Service
- • Wikidata
- • NCES via Urban Institute Education Data Portal
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API