Lamar, Colorado

Lamar population, 2020 to 2024

Lamar lost 62 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +106. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 58th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Lamar is 54% of it.

Lamar covers 5.22 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,464 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Lamar is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lamar is in

All of Lamar's residents live in Prowers County, which had 11,957 residents in 2024. Lamar holds 63.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lamar

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lamar by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81052. 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 Lamar is

The Census internal point of Lamar is at 38.076000, -102.614700. Denver, the capital, is 171.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Garden City, KS (27,996 people), 96.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pueblo, CO, 109.2 miles away.

Daylight in Lamar

At 38.08° N, Lamar gets about 14 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lamar

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Las Animas, 33.1 miles away, with 2,361 people.