Vail, Colorado

Vail population, 2020 to 2024

Vail lost 356 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -7.4%. In the latest year it moved by -44.

Vail covers 4.71 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 948 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Vail is less dense than the typical town.

What county Vail is in

All of Vail's residents live in Eagle County, which had 54,330 residents in 2024. Vail holds 8.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Vail

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Vail by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 81657. 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 Vail is

The Census internal point of Vail is at 39.637800, -106.362500. Denver, the capital, is 73.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Avon, CO (5,898 people), 8.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boulder, CO, 64.7 miles away.

Daylight in Vail

At 39.64° N, Vail gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Vail

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Avon, 8.2 miles away, with 5,898 people.