Poncha Springs, Colorado

Poncha Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Poncha Springs added 421 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +44.9%. In the latest year it moved by +67.

Poncha Springs covers 3.08 square miles of land, for 441 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Poncha Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Poncha Springs is in

All of Poncha Springs's residents live in Chaffee County, which had 20,780 residents in 2024. Poncha Springs holds 6.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Poncha Springs

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Poncha Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 81201, 81242. 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 Poncha Springs is

The Census internal point of Poncha Springs is at 38.521100, -106.072600. Denver, the capital, is 102.4 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Salida, CO (6,007 people), 4.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Colorado Springs, CO, 74.7 miles away.

Daylight in Poncha Springs

At 38.52° N, Poncha Springs gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Poncha Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Salida, 4.1 miles away, with 6,007 people.