Cripple Creek, Colorado

Cripple Creek population, 2020 to 2024

Cripple Creek lost 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

Cripple Creek covers 1.52 square miles of land, for 738 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Cripple Creek is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cripple Creek is in

All of Cripple Creek's residents live in Teller County, which had 24,862 residents in 2024. Cripple Creek holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cripple Creek

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cripple Creek by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80813. 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 Cripple Creek is

The Census internal point of Cripple Creek is at 38.746600, -105.185000. Denver, the capital, is 69.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Manitou Springs, CO (4,607 people), 16.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Colorado Springs, CO, 24.3 miles away.

Daylight in Cripple Creek

At 38.75° N, Cripple Creek gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cripple Creek

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Manitou Springs, 16.5 miles away, with 4,607 people.