Gypsum, Colorado

Gypsum population, 2020 to 2024

Gypsum added 1,120 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.8%. In the latest year it moved by +21. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Gypsum is 66% of it.

Gypsum covers 8.84 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 1,043 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Gypsum is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gypsum is in

All of Gypsum's residents live in Eagle County, which had 54,330 residents in 2024. Gypsum holds 17.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gypsum

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gypsum by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 81637. 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 Gypsum is

The Census internal point of Gypsum is at 39.620200, -106.956400. Denver, the capital, is 105.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Glenwood Springs, CO (10,311 people), 21.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boulder, CO, 94.7 miles away.

Daylight in Gypsum

At 39.62° N, Gypsum gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gypsum

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Eagle, 7.4 miles away, with 7,349 people.