Lansing, Kansas

Lansing population, 2020 to 2024

Lansing added 81 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +60. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 28th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Lansing is 98% of it.

Lansing covers 12.30 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 920 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Lansing is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lansing is in

All of Lansing's residents live in Leavenworth County, which had 84,670 residents in 2024. Lansing holds 13.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lansing

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lansing by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66043, 66048. 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 Lansing is

The Census internal point of Lansing is at 39.242900, -94.897900. Topeka, the capital, is 43.9 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Leavenworth, KS (37,370 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Kansas City, KS, 11.8 miles away.

Daylight in Lansing

At 39.24° N, Lansing gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lansing

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Leavenworth, 5.7 miles away, with 37,370 people.