Great Bend, Kansas

Great Bend population, 2020 to 2024

Great Bend lost 386 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.6%. In the latest year it moved by -56. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 57th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Great Bend is 1.2 times that size.

Great Bend covers 10.53 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 1,359 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Great Bend is less dense than the typical town.

What county Great Bend is in

All of Great Bend's residents live in Barton County, which had 24,835 residents in 2024. Great Bend holds 57.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Great Bend

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Great Bend by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67530. 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 Great Bend is

The Census internal point of Great Bend is at 38.359800, -98.799500. Topeka, the capital, is 174.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hays, KS (21,213 people), 45.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wichita, KS, 91.7 miles away.

Daylight in Great Bend

At 38.36° N, Great Bend gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Great Bend

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Hoisington, 11.0 miles away, with 2,607 people.