Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence population, 2020 to 2024

Lawrence added 2,332 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +563. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Lawrence is 8.4 times that size.

Lawrence covers 34.62 square miles of land and 0.83 of water, for 2,810 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Lawrence is denser than the typical town.

What county Lawrence is in

All of Lawrence's residents live in Douglas County, which had 121,989 residents in 2024. Lawrence holds 79.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lawrence

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lawrence by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66044, 66045, 66046, 66047, 66049. 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 Lawrence is

The Census internal point of Lawrence is at 38.959600, -95.265500. Topeka, the capital, is 23.0 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Topeka, KS (125,467 people), 23.7 miles away.

Daylight in Lawrence

At 38.96° N, Lawrence 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 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lawrence

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Eudora, 9.4 miles away, with 6,564 people.