Paola, Kansas

Paola population, 2020 to 2024

Paola added 77 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +53. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 21st; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Paola is 50% of it.

Paola covers 5.30 square miles of land and 0.42 of water, for 1,101 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Paola is less dense than the typical town.

What county Paola is in

All of Paola's residents live in Miami County, which had 35,737 residents in 2024. Paola holds 16.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Paola

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Paola by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66071. 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 Paola is

The Census internal point of Paola is at 38.578900, -94.860400. Topeka, the capital, is 54.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spring Hill, KS (10,070 people), 12.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Olathe, KS, 21.1 miles away.

Daylight in Paola

At 38.58° N, Paola gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Paola

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Osawatomie, 7.2 miles away, with 4,187 people.