Fruita, Colorado

Fruita population, 2020 to 2024

Fruita added 488 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +99. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 37th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Fruita is 99% of it.

Fruita covers 8.01 square miles of land and 0.29 of water, for 1,737 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Fruita is close to the typical town.

What county Fruita is in

All of Fruita's residents live in Mesa County, which had 161,260 residents in 2024. Fruita holds 8.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fruita

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fruita by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81521. 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 Fruita is

The Census internal point of Fruita is at 39.155600, -108.729600. Denver, the capital, is 203.8 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grand Junction, CO (70,554 people), 9.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Provo, UT, 172.3 miles away.

Daylight in Fruita

At 39.16° N, Fruita gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fruita

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Grand Junction, 9.8 miles away, with 70,554 people.