Commerce City, Colorado

Commerce City population, 2020 to 2024

Commerce City added 7,457 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.9%. In the latest year it moved by +1,693. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Commerce City is 5.0 times that size.

Commerce City covers 36.55 square miles of land and 0.40 of water, for 1,922 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Commerce City is close to the typical town.

What county Commerce City is in

All of Commerce City's residents live in Adams County, which had 542,973 residents in 2024. Commerce City holds 12.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Commerce City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Commerce City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80022, 80640. 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 Commerce City is

The Census internal point of Commerce City is at 39.882800, -104.794900. Denver, the capital, is 14.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Thornton, CO (146,689 people), 8.2 miles away.

Daylight in Commerce City

At 39.88° N, Commerce City gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Commerce City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Brighton, 5.7 miles away, with 43,473 people.