Fort Lupton, Colorado

Fort Lupton population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Lupton added 1,941 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +24.2%. In the latest year it moved by +505. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Fort Lupton is 71% of it.

Fort Lupton covers 13.25 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 751 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Fort Lupton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fort Lupton is in

All of Fort Lupton's residents live in Weld County, which had 369,745 residents in 2024. Fort Lupton holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Lupton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Lupton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80621. 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 Lupton is

The Census internal point of Fort Lupton is at 40.082800, -104.803300. Denver, the capital, is 25.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brighton, CO (43,473 people), 8.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Thornton, CO, 13.4 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Lupton

At 40.08° N, Fort Lupton gets about 15 h 02 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 Fort Lupton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Lochbuie, 6.5 miles away, with 8,599 people.