Colorado · Census place 0884770

Wiggins, Colorado

Wiggins is a town in Morgan County, Colorado with an estimated 1,872 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 121st largest of 149 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,872
#121 of 149 in Colorado
Change since 2020
+30.1%
+433 people
Land area
1.3 sq mi
Density
1,418 / sq mi
State median 1,848
Orange pin: Wiggins. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Denver.

Wiggins population, 2020 to 2024

Wiggins added 433 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +30.1%. In the latest year it moved by +58.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,402. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Wiggins covers 1.32 square miles of land, for 1,418 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Wiggins is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wiggins is in

All of Wiggins's residents live in Morgan County, which had 30,300 residents in 2024. Wiggins holds 6.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wiggins

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wiggins by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 80654. 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 Wiggins is

The Census internal point of Wiggins is at 40.228400, -104.072100. Denver, the capital, is 59.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fort Morgan, CO (11,835 people), 15.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greeley, CO, 39.1 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.228400, -104.072100
DMS
40°13'42.24"N 104°04'19.56"W
UTM
13N 578941.3E 4453520.7N
Geohash
9xjuzg352
Plus code
85GQ6WHH+95

Daylight in Wiggins

At 40.23° N, Wiggins gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wiggins

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Fort Morgan, 15.0 miles away, with 11,835 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Wiggins, CO?

1,872 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 433 (30.1%) from 1,439 in July 2020.

What county is Wiggins in?

Morgan County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Wiggins?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 80654.

How far is Wiggins from Denver?

59.0 miles (94.9 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Wiggins.

What is the nearest larger city to Wiggins?

Fort Morgan, CO, with 11,835 residents, 15.0 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.