Kansas · Census place 2069850

Syracuse, Kansas

Syracuse is a city in Hamilton County, Kansas with an estimated 1,807 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 127th largest of 193 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,807
#127 of 193 in Kansas
Change since 2020
+0.0%
+0 people
Land area
4.1 sq mi
Density
441 / sq mi
State median 1,527
Orange pin: Syracuse. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Topeka.

Syracuse population, 2020 to 2024

Syracuse added 0 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +21.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,828. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Syracuse covers 4.10 square miles of land, for 441 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Syracuse is less dense than the typical town.

What county Syracuse is in

All of Syracuse's residents live in Hamilton County, which had 2,488 residents in 2024. Syracuse holds 72.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Syracuse

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Syracuse by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67878. 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 Syracuse is

The Census internal point of Syracuse is at 37.953600, -101.796800. Topeka, the capital, is 339.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lakin, KS (2,112 people), 29.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pueblo, CO, 154.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
37.953600, -101.796800
DMS
37°57'12.96"N 101°47'48.48"W
UTM
14N 254269.8E 4204357.1N
Geohash
9wxxgt1zd
Plus code
859WX633+C7

Daylight in Syracuse

At 37.95° N, Syracuse gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Syracuse

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Johnson City, 26.6 miles away, with 1,459 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Syracuse, KS?

1,807 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 0 (0.0%) from 1,807 in July 2020.

What county is Syracuse in?

Hamilton County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Syracuse?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 67878.

How far is Syracuse from Topeka?

339.3 miles (546.1 km) in a straight line, heading ENE from Syracuse.

What is the nearest larger city to Syracuse?

Lakin, KS, with 2,112 residents, 29.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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