Rifle, Colorado

Rifle population, 2020 to 2024

Rifle added 221 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +53. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Rifle is 76% of it.

Rifle covers 7.01 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,521 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Rifle is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rifle is in

All of Rifle's residents live in Garfield County, which had 63,167 residents in 2024. Rifle holds 16.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rifle

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rifle by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81650. 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 Rifle is

The Census internal point of Rifle is at 39.537600, -107.770300. Denver, the capital, is 148.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grand Junction, CO (70,554 people), 52.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boulder, CO, 137.9 miles away.

Daylight in Rifle

At 39.54° N, Rifle gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rifle

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Silt, 6.3 miles away, with 3,727 people.