Lynn, Massachusetts

Lynn population, 2020 to 2024

Lynn added 2,416 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +1,621. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 17th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Lynn is 2.3 times that size.

Lynn covers 10.74 square miles of land and 2.78 of water, for 9,636 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Lynn is denser than the typical town.

What county Lynn is in

All of Lynn's residents live in Essex County, which had 823,938 residents in 2024. Lynn holds 12.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lynn

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lynn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 01901, 01902, 01904, 01905. 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 Lynn is

The Census internal point of Lynn is at 42.474800, -70.962000. Boston, the capital, is 9.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Boston, MA (673,458 people), 9.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 47 m (154 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Lynn

At 42.47° N, Lynn gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 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 Lynn daylight page.

Places near Lynn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Salem, 3.7 miles away, with 45,677 people.