Denver, Colorado

Denver population, 2020 to 2024

Denver added 11,399 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +7,652. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 45th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Denver is 51.8 times that size.

Denver covers 153.07 square miles of land and 1.65 of water, for 4,763 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Denver is denser than the typical town.

What county Denver is in

All of Denver's residents live in Denver County, which had 729,019 residents in 2024. Denver holds 100.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Denver

35 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Denver by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80123, 80202, 80203, 80204, 80205, 80206, 80207, 80209, 80210, 80211, 80212, 80216, 80218, 80219, 80220, 80221, 80222, 80223, 80224, 80227, 80230, 80231, 80235, 80236, 80237, 80238, 80239, 80246, 80247, 80249, 80264, 80266, 80290, 80293, 80294. 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 Denver is

The Census internal point of Denver is at 39.761900, -104.881100. Denver, the capital, is 5.7 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Phoenix, AZ (1,673,164 people), 584.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Aurora, CO, 9.3 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1,613 m (5,292 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Denver

At 39.76° N, Denver gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Denver daylight page.

Places near Denver

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Glendale, 5.0 miles away, with 4,465 people.