Las Animas, Colorado

Las Animas population, 2020 to 2024

Las Animas added 64 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by -20.

Las Animas covers 1.63 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,448 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Las Animas is less dense than the typical town.

What county Las Animas is in

All of Las Animas's residents live in Bent County, which had 5,779 residents in 2024. Las Animas holds 40.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Las Animas

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Las Animas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81054. 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 Las Animas is

The Census internal point of Las Animas is at 38.069700, -103.223200. Denver, the capital, is 149.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is La Junta, CO (6,986 people), 18.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pueblo, CO, 76.6 miles away.

Daylight in Las Animas

At 38.07° N, Las Animas 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 Las Animas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is La Junta, 18.7 miles away, with 6,986 people.