Salina, Kansas

Salina population, 2020 to 2024

Salina lost 732 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +108. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 51st; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Salina is 4.0 times that size.

Salina covers 26.29 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,754 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Salina is denser than the typical town.

What county Salina is in

All of Salina's residents live in Saline County, which had 53,459 residents in 2024. Salina holds 86.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salina

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Salina by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67401. 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 Salina is

The Census internal point of Salina is at 38.813100, -97.614500. Topeka, the capital, is 105.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Manhattan, KS (54,700 people), 60.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wichita, KS, 78.9 miles away.

Daylight in Salina

At 38.81° N, Salina gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Salina

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Solomon, 15.2 miles away, with 1,006 people.