Mead, Colorado

Mead population, 2020 to 2024

Mead added 1,933 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +40.3%. In the latest year it moved by +288. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Mead is 48% of it.

Mead covers 15.47 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 435 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Mead is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mead is in

All of Mead's residents live in Weld County, which had 369,745 residents in 2024. Mead holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mead

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mead by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 80504, 80513, 80542. 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 Mead is

The Census internal point of Mead is at 40.227000, -104.988300. Denver, the capital, is 33.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Berthoud, CO (13,648 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greeley, CO, 17.3 miles away.

Daylight in Mead

At 40.23° N, Mead gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mead

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Berthoud, 4.2 miles away, with 13,648 people.