Junction City, Kansas

Junction City population, 2020 to 2024

Junction City lost 896 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.9%. In the latest year it moved by +113. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 63rd; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Junction City is 1.9 times that size.

Junction City covers 11.55 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 1,909 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Junction City is denser than the typical town.

What county Junction City is in

All of Junction City's residents live in Geary County, which had 35,459 residents in 2024. Junction City holds 62.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Junction City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Junction City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66441. 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 Junction City is

The Census internal point of Junction City is at 39.027200, -96.852300. Topeka, the capital, is 63.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Manhattan, KS (54,700 people), 17.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Topeka, KS, 62.1 miles away.

Daylight in Junction City

At 39.03° N, Junction City gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Junction City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Grandview Plaza, 3.2 miles away, with 1,648 people.