El Dorado, Kansas

El Dorado population, 2020 to 2024

El Dorado lost 77 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by -146. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so El Dorado is 1.1 times that size.

El Dorado covers 9.56 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,328 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so El Dorado is less dense than the typical town.

What county El Dorado is in

All of El Dorado's residents live in Butler County, which had 69,158 residents in 2024. El Dorado holds 18.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in El Dorado

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps El Dorado by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67042. 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 El Dorado is

The Census internal point of El Dorado is at 37.821600, -96.862200. Topeka, the capital, is 106.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Andover, KS (17,000 people), 17.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wichita, KS, 27.9 miles away.

Daylight in El Dorado

At 37.82° N, El Dorado 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 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near El Dorado

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Towanda, 7.4 miles away, with 1,424 people.