Colfax, Louisiana

Colfax population, 2020 to 2024

Colfax lost 36 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +7.

Colfax covers 1.49 square miles of land, for 937 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Colfax is less dense than the typical town.

What county Colfax is in

All of Colfax's residents live in Grant Parish, which had 22,109 residents in 2024. Colfax holds 6.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Colfax

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Colfax by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 71417. 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 Colfax is

The Census internal point of Colfax is at 31.519600, -92.699700. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 115.8 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ball, LA (3,801 people), 18.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Shreveport, LA, 91.5 miles away.

Daylight in Colfax

At 31.52° N, Colfax gets about 14 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Colfax

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Ball, 18.5 miles away, with 3,801 people.