Durango, Colorado

Durango population, 2020 to 2024

Durango added 704 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +301. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Durango is 1.4 times that size.

Durango covers 17.68 square miles of land and 2.39 of water, for 1,121 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Durango is less dense than the typical town.

What county Durango is in

All of Durango's residents live in La Plata County, which had 56,823 residents in 2024. Durango holds 34.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Durango

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Durango by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81301, 81303. 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 Durango is

The Census internal point of Durango is at 37.264500, -107.874100. Denver, the capital, is 231.6 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Farmington, NM (46,262 people), 39.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rio Rancho, NM, 151.6 miles away.

Daylight in Durango

At 37.26° N, Durango gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Durango

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Bayfield, 15.6 miles away, with 2,923 people.