Hays, Kansas

Hays population, 2020 to 2024

Hays added 61 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +64. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 33rd; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Hays is 1.8 times that size.

Hays covers 8.74 square miles of land, for 2,427 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Hays is denser than the typical town.

What county Hays is in

All of Hays's residents live in Ellis County, which had 29,007 residents in 2024. Hays holds 73.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hays

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hays by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67601. 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 Hays is

The Census internal point of Hays is at 38.882200, -99.322000. Topeka, the capital, is 196.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dodge City, KS (27,663 people), 86.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wichita, KS, 135.1 miles away.

Daylight in Hays

At 38.88° N, Hays gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hays

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Victoria, 9.6 miles away, with 1,129 people.