Silt, Colorado

Silt population, 2020 to 2024

Silt added 173 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.9%. In the latest year it moved by +16.

Silt covers 1.68 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 2,218 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Silt is denser than the typical town.

What county Silt is in

All of Silt's residents live in Garfield County, which had 63,167 residents in 2024. Silt holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Silt

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Silt by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 81652. 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 Silt is

The Census internal point of Silt is at 39.548000, -107.652700. Denver, the capital, is 142.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rifle, CO (10,663 people), 6.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boulder, CO, 131.7 miles away.

Daylight in Silt

At 39.55° N, Silt 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 Silt

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Rifle, 6.3 miles away, with 10,663 people.