Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Colorado Springs added 11,841 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +2,253. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 41st; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Colorado Springs is 35.1 times that size.

Colorado Springs covers 202.09 square miles of land and 0.36 of water, for 2,442 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Colorado Springs is denser than the typical town.

What county Colorado Springs is in

All of Colorado Springs's residents live in El Paso County, which had 752,772 residents in 2024. Colorado Springs holds 65.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Colorado Springs

23 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Colorado Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80903, 80904, 80905, 80906, 80907, 80909, 80910, 80914, 80915, 80916, 80917, 80918, 80919, 80920, 80921, 80922, 80923, 80924, 80925, 80927, 80929, 80938, 80951. 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 Colorado Springs is

The Census internal point of Colorado Springs is at 38.867300, -104.760700. Denver, the capital, is 61.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Denver, CO (729,019 people), 62.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pueblo, CO, 42.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1,932 m (6,339 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Colorado Springs

At 38.87° N, Colorado Springs 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. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Colorado Springs daylight page.

Places near Colorado Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Manitou Springs, 8.2 miles away, with 4,607 people.