Lyons, Kansas

Lyons population, 2020 to 2024

Lyons lost 97 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -21.

Lyons covers 2.65 square miles of land, for 1,320 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Lyons is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lyons is in

All of Lyons's residents live in Rice County, which had 9,284 residents in 2024. Lyons holds 37.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lyons

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lyons by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67554. 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 Lyons is

The Census internal point of Lyons is at 38.346100, -98.204700. Topeka, the capital, is 144.6 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hutchinson, KS (39,561 people), 25.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wichita, KS, 65.1 miles away.

Daylight in Lyons

At 38.35° N, Lyons gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lyons

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Sterling, 9.5 miles away, with 2,309 people.