Laconia, New Hampshire

Laconia population, 2020 to 2024

Laconia added 420 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +163. Among 13 New Hampshire places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by +1.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Hampshire has 22,938 people, so Laconia is 75% of it.

Laconia covers 19.84 square miles of land and 6.24 of water, for 872 people per square mile of land. The median New Hampshire place of 5,000+ has 746, so Laconia is denser than the typical town.

What county Laconia is in

All of Laconia's residents live in Belknap County, which had 65,257 residents in 2024. Laconia holds 26.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Laconia

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Laconia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 03246. 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 Laconia is

The Census internal point of Laconia is at 43.576500, -71.482300. Concord, the capital, is 25.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Concord, NH (44,674 people), 24.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 40.9 miles away.

Daylight in Laconia

At 43.58° N, Laconia gets about 15 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Laconia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Hampshire, measured between internal points. The closest is Franklin, 12.7 miles away, with 8,823 people.