Keene, New Hampshire

Keene population, 2020 to 2024

Keene lost 10 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +65. Among 13 New Hampshire places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 12th; the median place changed by +1.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Hampshire has 22,938 people, so Keene is 1.0 times that size.

Keene covers 37.09 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 621 people per square mile of land. The median New Hampshire place of 5,000+ has 746, so Keene is less dense than the typical town.

What county Keene is in

All of Keene's residents live in Cheshire County, which had 78,078 residents in 2024. Keene holds 29.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Keene

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Keene by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 03431. 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 Keene is

The Census internal point of Keene is at 42.953800, -72.306900. Concord, the capital, is 42.6 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fitchburg, MA (42,145 people), 34.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 43.7 miles away.

Daylight in Keene

At 42.95° N, Keene gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Keene

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Hampshire, measured between internal points. The closest is Claremont, 29.9 miles away, with 13,105 people.