Sterling, Colorado

Sterling population, 2020 to 2024

Sterling lost 300 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +92. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 73rd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Sterling is 93% of it.

Sterling covers 7.62 square miles of land, for 1,721 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Sterling is close to the typical town.

What county Sterling is in

All of Sterling's residents live in Logan County, which had 20,755 residents in 2024. Sterling holds 63.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sterling

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sterling by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80751. 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 Sterling is

The Census internal point of Sterling is at 40.620500, -103.192600. Denver, the capital, is 112.5 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Evans, CO (22,394 people), 83.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greeley, CO, 84.2 miles away.

Daylight in Sterling

At 40.62° N, Sterling gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sterling

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Akron, 31.6 miles away, with 1,745 people.