Bel Aire, Kansas

Bel Aire population, 2020 to 2024

Bel Aire added 1,758 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +21.2%. In the latest year it moved by +501. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Bel Aire is 87% of it.

Bel Aire covers 7.04 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,430 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Bel Aire is close to the typical town.

What county Bel Aire is in

All of Bel Aire's residents live in Sedgwick County, which had 536,081 residents in 2024. Bel Aire holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bel Aire

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bel Aire by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67220, 67226. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bel Aire is

The Census internal point of Bel Aire is at 37.775900, -97.246600. Topeka, the capital, is 122.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wichita, KS (400,991 people), 8.0 miles away.

Daylight in Bel Aire

At 37.78° N, Bel Aire gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bel Aire

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Kechi, 1.7 miles away, with 2,388 people.