Dacono, Colorado

Dacono population, 2020 to 2024

Dacono added 397 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.3%. In the latest year it moved by +146. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Dacono is 48% of it.

Dacono covers 9.28 square miles of land, for 727 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Dacono is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dacono is in

All of Dacono's residents live in Weld County, which had 369,745 residents in 2024. Dacono holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dacono

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Dacono by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80514, 80603. 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 Dacono is

The Census internal point of Dacono is at 40.063500, -104.946800. Denver, the capital, is 22.5 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Frederick, CO (17,937 people), 3.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Thornton, CO, 9.9 miles away.

Daylight in Dacono

At 40.06° N, Dacono gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dacono

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Frederick, 3.3 miles away, with 17,937 people.