Carbondale, Colorado

Carbondale population, 2020 to 2024

Carbondale added 295 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +12. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 31st; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Carbondale is 48% of it.

Carbondale covers 2.08 square miles of land, for 3,249 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Carbondale is denser than the typical town.

What county Carbondale is in

All of Carbondale's residents live in Garfield County, which had 63,167 residents in 2024. Carbondale holds 10.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carbondale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Carbondale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 81623. 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 Carbondale is

The Census internal point of Carbondale is at 39.395600, -107.215000. Denver, the capital, is 121.1 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Glenwood Springs, CO (10,311 people), 12.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boulder, CO, 113.0 miles away.

Daylight in Carbondale

At 39.40° N, Carbondale gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carbondale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Basalt, 9.1 miles away, with 4,001 people.