Silver Lake, Kansas

Silver Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Silver Lake lost 29 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

Silver Lake covers 0.56 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,343 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Silver Lake is denser than the typical town.

What county Silver Lake is in

All of Silver Lake's residents live in Shawnee County, which had 177,942 residents in 2024. Silver Lake holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Silver Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Silver Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66539. 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 Silver Lake is

The Census internal point of Silver Lake is at 39.099800, -95.856700. Topeka, the capital, is 10.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Topeka, KS (125,467 people), 9.7 miles away.

Daylight in Silver Lake

At 39.10° N, Silver Lake gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Silver Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Rossville, 5.6 miles away, with 1,090 people.