Salida, Colorado

Salida population, 2020 to 2024

Salida added 295 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +100. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Salida is 43% of it.

Salida covers 2.81 square miles of land, for 2,138 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Salida is denser than the typical town.

What county Salida is in

All of Salida's residents live in Chaffee County, which had 20,780 residents in 2024. Salida holds 28.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salida

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Salida by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81201. 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 Salida is

The Census internal point of Salida is at 38.529900, -105.998000. Denver, the capital, is 99.6 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cañon City, CO (17,193 people), 42.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Colorado Springs, CO, 70.6 miles away.

Daylight in Salida

At 38.53° N, Salida gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 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 Salida

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Poncha Springs, 4.1 miles away, with 1,358 people.