Wichita, Kansas

Wichita population, 2020 to 2024

Wichita added 2,924 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +3,335. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Wichita is 34.7 times that size.

Wichita covers 165.07 square miles of land and 4.47 of water, for 2,429 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Wichita is denser than the typical town.

What county Wichita is in

All of Wichita's residents live in Sedgwick County, which had 536,081 residents in 2024. Wichita holds 74.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wichita

24 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wichita by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67202, 67203, 67204, 67205, 67206, 67207, 67208, 67209, 67210, 67211, 67212, 67213, 67214, 67215, 67216, 67217, 67218, 67219, 67220, 67223, 67226, 67230, 67235, 67260. 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 Wichita is

The Census internal point of Wichita is at 37.690600, -97.345800. Topeka, the capital, is 130.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tulsa, OK (415,154 people), 134.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Topeka, KS, 128.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 399 m (1,309 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Wichita

At 37.69° N, Wichita gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Wichita daylight page.

Places near Wichita

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Bel Aire, 8.0 miles away, with 10,066 people.