Monument, Colorado

Monument population, 2020 to 2024

Monument added 2,979 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +28.6%. In the latest year it moved by +1,293. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 6th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Monument is 95% of it.

Monument covers 6.97 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,924 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Monument is close to the typical town.

What county Monument is in

All of Monument's residents live in El Paso County, which had 752,772 residents in 2024. Monument 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 Monument

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Monument by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 80132, 80921. 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 Monument is

The Census internal point of Monument is at 39.074400, -104.844200. Denver, the capital, is 46.5 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Colorado Springs, CO (493,554 people), 15.0 miles away.

Daylight in Monument

At 39.07° N, Monument gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Monument

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Palmer Lake, 4.5 miles away, with 2,575 people.