Colorado City, Texas

Colorado City population, 2020 to 2024

Colorado City lost 84 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -88.

Colorado City covers 5.33 square miles of land, for 735 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Colorado City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Colorado City is in

All of Colorado City's residents live in Mitchell County, which had 8,968 residents in 2024. Colorado City holds 43.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Colorado City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Colorado City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79512. 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 Colorado City is

The Census internal point of Colorado City is at 32.399500, -100.858300. Austin, the capital, is 235.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Snyder, TX (11,151 people), 21.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Abilene, TX, 65.4 miles away.

Daylight in Colorado City

At 32.40° N, Colorado City gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Colorado City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Roscoe, 19.2 miles away, with 1,209 people.