Colorado · Census place 0848115

Mancos, Colorado

Mancos is a town in Montezuma County, Colorado with an estimated 1,272 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 139th largest of 149 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,272
#139 of 149 in Colorado
Change since 2020
+6.2%
+74 people
Land area
0.6 sq mi
Density
1,988 / sq mi
State median 1,848
Orange pin: Mancos. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Denver.

Mancos population, 2020 to 2024

Mancos added 74 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.2%. In the latest year it moved by +23.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,195. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Mancos covers 0.64 square miles of land, for 1,988 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Mancos is close to the typical town.

What county Mancos is in

All of Mancos's residents live in Montezuma County, which had 26,841 residents in 2024. Mancos holds 4.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mancos

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mancos by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 81328. 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 Mancos is

The Census internal point of Mancos is at 37.346600, -108.293800. Denver, the capital, is 243.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cortez, CO (9,151 people), 15.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rio Rancho, NM, 167.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
37.346600, -108.293800
DMS
37°20'47.76"N 108°17'37.68"W
UTM
12N 739713.4E 4136758.6N
Geohash
9wdurwwze
Plus code
859H8PW4+JF

Daylight in Mancos

At 37.35° N, Mancos gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mancos

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Cortez, 15.5 miles away, with 9,151 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Mancos, CO?

1,272 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 74 (6.2%) from 1,198 in July 2020.

What county is Mancos in?

Montezuma County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Mancos?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 81328.

How far is Mancos from Denver?

243.5 miles (391.8 km) in a straight line, heading NE from Mancos.

What is the nearest larger city to Mancos?

Cortez, CO, with 9,151 residents, 15.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.