Fountain, Colorado

Fountain population, 2020 to 2024

Fountain lost 430 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +883. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Fountain is 2.1 times that size.

Fountain covers 22.34 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,319 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Fountain is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fountain is in

All of Fountain's residents live in El Paso County, which had 752,772 residents in 2024. Fountain holds 3.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fountain

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fountain by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80817. 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 Fountain is

The Census internal point of Fountain is at 38.689000, -104.680600. Denver, the capital, is 74.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Colorado Springs, CO (493,554 people), 13.0 miles away.

Daylight in Fountain

At 38.69° N, Fountain gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fountain

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Colorado Springs, 13.1 miles away, with 493,554 people.