Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Collins added 934 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +194. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 53rd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Fort Collins is 12.2 times that size.

Fort Collins covers 57.24 square miles of land and 1.26 of water, for 2,986 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Fort Collins is denser than the typical town.

What county Fort Collins is in

All of Fort Collins's residents live in Larimer County, which had 374,574 residents in 2024. Fort Collins holds 45.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Collins

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Collins by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80521, 80524, 80525, 80526, 80528. 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 Fort Collins is

The Census internal point of Fort Collins is at 40.548200, -105.064800. Denver, the capital, is 56.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Denver, CO (729,019 people), 55.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greeley, CO, 17.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1,524 m (5,000 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Fort Collins

At 40.55° N, Fort Collins gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 48 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 Fort Collins daylight page.

Places near Fort Collins

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Timnath, 5.4 miles away, with 10,848 people.