Buena Vista, Colorado

Buena Vista population, 2020 to 2024

Buena Vista added 264 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.2%. In the latest year it moved by +50.

Buena Vista covers 3.48 square miles of land, for 899 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Buena Vista is less dense than the typical town.

What county Buena Vista is in

All of Buena Vista's residents live in Chaffee County, which had 20,780 residents in 2024. Buena Vista holds 15.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Buena Vista

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Buena Vista by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 81211. 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 Buena Vista is

The Census internal point of Buena Vista is at 38.832000, -106.138700. Denver, the capital, is 87.9 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Salida, CO (6,007 people), 22.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Colorado Springs, CO, 74.2 miles away.

Daylight in Buena Vista

At 38.83° N, Buena Vista gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Buena Vista

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Poncha Springs, 21.8 miles away, with 1,358 people.