Lexington, Nebraska

Lexington population, 2020 to 2024

Lexington added 539 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +253. Among 32 Nebraska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Nebraska has 10,206 people, so Lexington is 1.1 times that size.

Lexington covers 5.08 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,206 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Lexington is denser than the typical town.

What county Lexington is in

All of Lexington's residents live in Dawson County, which had 24,554 residents in 2024. Lexington holds 45.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lexington

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lexington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68850. 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 Lexington is

The Census internal point of Lexington is at 40.777500, -99.746800. Lincoln, the capital, is 159.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kearney, NE (34,741 people), 35.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lincoln, NE, 160.7 miles away.

Daylight in Lexington

At 40.78° N, Lexington gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lexington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Cozad, 13.8 miles away, with 3,945 people.