Cortez, Colorado

Cortez population, 2020 to 2024

Cortez added 373 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +92. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 32nd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Cortez is 65% of it.

Cortez covers 6.23 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,469 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Cortez is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cortez is in

All of Cortez's residents live in Montezuma County, which had 26,841 residents in 2024. Cortez holds 34.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cortez

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cortez by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81321. 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 Cortez is

The Census internal point of Cortez is at 37.349800, -108.576700. Denver, the capital, is 254.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Durango, CO (19,811 people), 39.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rio Rancho, NM, 176.8 miles away.

Daylight in Cortez

At 37.35° N, Cortez gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cortez

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Mancos, 15.5 miles away, with 1,272 people.