Delta, Colorado

Delta population, 2020 to 2024

Delta added 624 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.9%. In the latest year it moved by +75. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 22nd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Delta is 69% of it.

Delta covers 13.27 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 730 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Delta is less dense than the typical town.

What county Delta is in

All of Delta's residents live in Delta County, which had 32,215 residents in 2024. Delta holds 30.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Delta

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Delta by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81416. 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 Delta is

The Census internal point of Delta is at 38.757400, -108.088000. Denver, the capital, is 179.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Montrose, CO (21,646 people), 23.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lakewood, CO, 171.7 miles away.

Daylight in Delta

At 38.76° N, Delta 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 Delta

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Orchard City, 7.7 miles away, with 3,276 people.