Buffalo, Wyoming

Buffalo population, 2020 to 2024

Buffalo added 228 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +17.

Buffalo covers 4.54 square miles of land, for 1,025 people per square mile of land. The median Wyoming place of 5,000+ has 1,493, so Buffalo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Buffalo is in

All of Buffalo's residents live in Johnson County, which had 8,803 residents in 2024. Buffalo holds 52.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Buffalo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Buffalo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 82834. 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 Buffalo is

The Census internal point of Buffalo is at 44.338500, -106.715300. Cheyenne, the capital, is 241.0 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sheridan, WY (19,813 people), 33.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Billings, MT, 134.5 miles away.

Daylight in Buffalo

At 44.34° N, Buffalo gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Buffalo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wyoming, measured between internal points. The closest is Sheridan, 33.9 miles away, with 19,813 people.