Superior, Colorado

Superior population, 2020 to 2024

Superior added 547 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +169. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Superior is 97% of it.

Superior covers 3.93 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 3,474 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Superior is denser than the typical town.

What county Superior is in

All of Superior's residents live in Boulder County, which had 330,262 residents in 2024. Superior holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Superior

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Superior by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 80027. 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 Superior is

The Census internal point of Superior is at 39.931200, -105.159100. Denver, the capital, is 16.2 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Louisville, CO (20,811 people), 2.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Westminster, CO, 6.3 miles away.

Daylight in Superior

At 39.93° N, Superior gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Superior

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Louisville, 2.8 miles away, with 20,811 people.