Cañon City, Colorado

Cañon City population, 2020 to 2024

Cañon City added 251 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -43. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Cañon City is 1.2 times that size.

Cañon City covers 12.41 square miles of land, for 1,385 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Cañon City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cañon City is in

All of Cañon City's residents live in Fremont County, which had 50,093 residents in 2024. Cañon City holds 34.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cañon City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cañon City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81212. 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 Cañon City is

The Census internal point of Cañon City is at 38.441900, -105.220900. Denver, the capital, is 90.5 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fountain, CO (29,457 people), 33.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pueblo, CO, 35.2 miles away.

Daylight in Cañon City

At 38.44° N, Cañon City gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cañon City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Florence, 7.8 miles away, with 3,883 people.