Ohio · Census place 3929246
Gambier, Ohio
Gambier is a village in Knox County, Ohio with an estimated 2,338 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 374th largest of 526 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,338
- #374 of 526 in Ohio
- Change since 2020
- +5.4%
- +119 people
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,487 / sq mi
- State median 2,000
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Gambier population, 2020 to 2024
Gambier added 119 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.4%. In the latest year it moved by +3.
Gambier covers 0.94 square miles of land, for 2,487 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Gambier is denser than the typical town.
What county Gambier is in
All of Gambier's residents live in Knox County, which had 63,848 residents in 2024. Gambier holds 3.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Gambier
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gambier by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 43022. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.
Where Gambier is
The Census internal point of Gambier is at 40.376200, -82.394600. Columbus, the capital, is 42.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Vernon, OH (17,329 people), 4.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 41.3 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 40.376200, -82.394600
- DMS
- 40°22'34.32"N 82°23'40.56"W
- UTM
- 17N 381611.3E 4470446.6N
- Geohash
- dpjmtn606
- Plus code
- 86GV9JG4+F5
Daylight in Gambier
At 40.38° N, Gambier gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Gambier
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Vernon, 4.3 miles away, with 17,329 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Gambier, OH?
2,338 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 119 (5.4%) from 2,219 in July 2020.
What county is Gambier in?
Knox County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Gambier?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 43022.
How far is Gambier from Columbus?
42.9 miles (69.1 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Gambier.
What is the nearest larger city to Gambier?
Mount Vernon, OH, with 17,329 residents, 4.3 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.