Poplar Level is a neighborhood five miles (8 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
Named for the poplar wood planks that originally made up Poplar Level Road, the main roadway through the neighborhood as it stretched from Germantown to Petersburg, it is bounded by Eastern Parkway to the north, Poplar Level road to the west, Newburg Road to the east, and Interstate 264 to the south.
The South Fork of Beargrass Creek runs through the neighborhood.
As of the 2000 census, it is estimated that there were 1,780 people and 681 households residing in the Poplar Level neighborhood[2].
The racial makeup is 96.30% White, 2.20% Black or African American, and 0.9% listed as some other race.