Bayfield, Colorado

Bayfield population, 2020 to 2024

Bayfield added 57 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +28.

Bayfield covers 2.02 square miles of land, for 1,447 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Bayfield is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bayfield is in

All of Bayfield's residents live in La Plata County, which had 56,823 residents in 2024. Bayfield holds 5.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bayfield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bayfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 81122. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bayfield is

The Census internal point of Bayfield is at 37.234600, -107.593700. Denver, the capital, is 223.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Durango, CO (19,811 people), 15.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rio Rancho, NM, 143.6 miles away.

Daylight in Bayfield

At 37.23° N, Bayfield gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bayfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Durango, 15.6 miles away, with 19,811 people.