West Lafayette, Ohio

West Lafayette population, 2020 to 2024

West Lafayette added 37 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

West Lafayette covers 0.86 square miles of land, for 2,863 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so West Lafayette is denser than the typical town.

What county West Lafayette is in

All of West Lafayette's residents live in Coshocton County, which had 37,003 residents in 2024. West Lafayette holds 6.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in West Lafayette

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps West Lafayette by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 43845. 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 West Lafayette is

The Census internal point of West Lafayette is at 40.276000, -81.751700. Columbus, the capital, is 69.5 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Coshocton, OH (11,114 people), 5.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Akron, OH, 56.9 miles away.

Daylight in West Lafayette

At 40.28° N, West Lafayette gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near West Lafayette

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Coshocton, 5.1 miles away, with 11,114 people.