Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Wheat Ridge population, 2020 to 2024

Wheat Ridge lost 384 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +119. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Wheat Ridge is 2.3 times that size.

Wheat Ridge covers 9.35 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 3,422 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Wheat Ridge is denser than the typical town.

What county Wheat Ridge is in

All of Wheat Ridge's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 578,533 residents in 2024. Wheat Ridge holds 5.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wheat Ridge

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wheat Ridge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80033, 80212. 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 Wheat Ridge is

The Census internal point of Wheat Ridge is at 39.772700, -105.104800. Denver, the capital, is 6.8 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Arvada, CO (121,873 people), 4.8 miles away.

Daylight in Wheat Ridge

At 39.77° N, Wheat Ridge gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wheat Ridge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Edgewater, 2.7 miles away, with 4,880 people.