Mission, Kansas

Mission population, 2020 to 2024

Mission added 68 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +20. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Mission is 87% of it.

Mission covers 2.67 square miles of land, for 3,750 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Mission is denser than the typical town.

What county Mission is in

All of Mission's residents live in Johnson County, which had 632,276 residents in 2024. Mission holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mission

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mission by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66202, 66205. 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 Mission is

The Census internal point of Mission is at 39.026800, -94.657000. Topeka, the capital, is 54.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Merriam, KS (11,560 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Kansas City, KS, 8.0 miles away.

Daylight in Mission

At 39.03° N, Mission 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 Mission

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Roeland Park, 1.2 miles away, with 6,689 people.