La Junta, Colorado

La Junta population, 2020 to 2024

La Junta lost 331 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.5%. In the latest year it moved by -65. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 78th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so La Junta is 50% of it.

La Junta covers 3.20 square miles of land, for 2,183 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so La Junta is denser than the typical town.

What county La Junta is in

All of La Junta's residents live in Otero County, which had 17,991 residents in 2024. La Junta holds 38.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in La Junta

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps La Junta by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81050. 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 La Junta is

The Census internal point of La Junta is at 37.979400, -103.547300. Denver, the capital, is 144.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lamar, CO (7,641 people), 51.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pueblo, CO, 61.2 miles away.

Daylight in La Junta

At 37.98° N, La Junta gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near La Junta

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Rocky Ford, 10.7 miles away, with 3,781 people.