Valley Center, Kansas

Valley Center population, 2020 to 2024

Valley Center added 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +39. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Valley Center is 64% of it.

Valley Center covers 8.10 square miles of land, for 916 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Valley Center is less dense than the typical town.

What county Valley Center is in

All of Valley Center's residents live in Sedgwick County, which had 536,081 residents in 2024. Valley Center holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Valley Center

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Valley Center by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67147. 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 Valley Center is

The Census internal point of Valley Center is at 37.833000, -97.367700. Topeka, the capital, is 124.1 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Park City, KS (9,110 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wichita, KS, 9.9 miles away.

Daylight in Valley Center

At 37.83° N, Valley Center gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Valley Center

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Park City, 2.9 miles away, with 9,110 people.