Liberal, Kansas

Liberal population, 2020 to 2024

Liberal lost 555 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +48. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 59th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Liberal is 1.7 times that size.

Liberal covers 12.02 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,596 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Liberal is close to the typical town.

What county Liberal is in

All of Liberal's residents live in Seward County, which had 21,276 residents in 2024. Liberal holds 90.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Liberal

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Liberal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67901. 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 Liberal is

The Census internal point of Liberal is at 37.046100, -100.927700. Topeka, the capital, is 317.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Garden City, KS (27,996 people), 64.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Amarillo, TX, 137.3 miles away.

Daylight in Liberal

At 37.05° N, Liberal gets about 14 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Liberal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Plains, 23.9 miles away, with 1,006 people.