Erie, Colorado

Erie population, 2020 to 2024

Erie added 8,181 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +26.9%. In the latest year it moved by +3,261. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Erie is 2.7 times that size.

Erie covers 21.37 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 1,806 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Erie is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Erie spans

Erie crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 38,594 residents as follows; Weld County holds 61.4% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Erie

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Erie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 80516. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Erie is

The Census internal point of Erie is at 40.040300, -105.038300. Denver, the capital, is 21.0 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Broomfield, CO (78,323 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Thornton, CO, 9.8 miles away.

Daylight in Erie

At 40.04° N, Erie 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 Erie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Lafayette, 4.5 miles away, with 30,587 people.