Lancaster, Ohio

Lancaster population, 2020 to 2024

Lancaster added 1,040 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +191. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Lancaster is 3.0 times that size.

Lancaster covers 19.04 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 2,189 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Lancaster is close to the typical town.

What county Lancaster is in

All of Lancaster's residents live in Fairfield County, which had 167,762 residents in 2024. Lancaster holds 24.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lancaster

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lancaster by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 43130. 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 Lancaster is

The Census internal point of Lancaster is at 39.725200, -82.605200. Columbus, the capital, is 26.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Reynoldsburg, OH (42,897 people), 19.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 26.9 miles away.

Daylight in Lancaster

At 39.73° N, Lancaster gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lancaster

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Baltimore, 8.3 miles away, with 3,089 people.