Lander, Wyoming

Lander population, 2020 to 2024

Lander added 45 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by -20. Among 16 Wyoming places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +0.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wyoming has 11,214 people, so Lander is 66% of it.

Lander covers 4.71 square miles of land, for 1,582 people per square mile of land. The median Wyoming place of 5,000+ has 1,493, so Lander is close to the typical town.

What county Lander is in

All of Lander's residents live in Fremont County, which had 39,721 residents in 2024. Lander holds 18.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lander

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lander by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 82520. 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 Lander is

The Census internal point of Lander is at 42.831000, -108.730600. Cheyenne, the capital, is 232.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Riverton, WY (10,953 people), 22.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Billings, MT, 204.6 miles away.

Daylight in Lander

At 42.83° N, Lander gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lander

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wyoming, measured between internal points. The closest is Riverton, 22.2 miles away, with 10,953 people.