Colfax, California

Colfax population, 2020 to 2024

Colfax added 67 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

Colfax covers 1.41 square miles of land, for 1,460 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Colfax is less dense than the typical town.

What county Colfax is in

All of Colfax's residents live in Placer County, which had 433,822 residents in 2024. Colfax holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Colfax

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Colfax by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95713. 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 Colfax is

The Census internal point of Colfax is at 39.093800, -120.953200. Sacramento, the capital, is 46.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grass Valley, CA (14,085 people), 10.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Roseville, CA, 29.8 miles away.

Daylight in Colfax

At 39.09° N, Colfax gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Colfax

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Grass Valley, 10.2 miles away, with 14,085 people.