Monte Vista, Colorado

Monte Vista population, 2020 to 2024

Monte Vista lost 222 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.2%. In the latest year it moved by -46.

Monte Vista covers 2.64 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,527 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Monte Vista is less dense than the typical town.

What county Monte Vista is in

All of Monte Vista's residents live in Rio Grande County, which had 11,132 residents in 2024. Monte Vista holds 36.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Monte Vista

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Monte Vista by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81144. 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 Monte Vista is

The Census internal point of Monte Vista is at 37.578500, -106.149900. Denver, the capital, is 162.0 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Alamosa, CO (9,906 people), 16.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pueblo, CO, 96.5 miles away.

Daylight in Monte Vista

At 37.58° N, Monte Vista gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Monte Vista

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Center, 12.1 miles away, with 1,889 people.