Rawlins, Wyoming

Rawlins population, 2020 to 2024

Rawlins lost 269 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.3%. In the latest year it moved by -64. Among 16 Wyoming places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +0.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wyoming has 11,214 people, so Rawlins is 71% of it.

Rawlins covers 8.25 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 964 people per square mile of land. The median Wyoming place of 5,000+ has 1,493, so Rawlins is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rawlins is in

All of Rawlins's residents live in Carbon County, which had 14,250 residents in 2024. Rawlins holds 55.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rawlins

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rawlins by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 82301. 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 Rawlins is

The Census internal point of Rawlins is at 41.785100, -107.224700. Cheyenne, the capital, is 132.2 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Casper, WY (58,823 people), 86.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Collins, CO, 141.2 miles away.

Daylight in Rawlins

At 41.79° N, Rawlins gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rawlins

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wyoming, measured between internal points. The closest is Saratoga, 31.4 miles away, with 1,760 people.