Clay Center, Kansas

Clay Center population, 2020 to 2024

Clay Center lost 132 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.1%. In the latest year it moved by -22.

Clay Center covers 3.19 square miles of land, for 1,276 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Clay Center is less dense than the typical town.

What county Clay Center is in

All of Clay Center's residents live in Clay County, which had 7,969 residents in 2024. Clay Center holds 51.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clay Center

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clay Center by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67432. 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 Clay Center is

The Census internal point of Clay Center is at 39.381200, -97.127400. Topeka, the capital, is 81.0 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Junction City, KS (22,053 people), 28.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Topeka, KS, 80.3 miles away.

Daylight in Clay Center

At 39.38° N, Clay Center gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Clay Center

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Junction City, 28.6 miles away, with 22,053 people.