Colonial Beach, Virginia

Colonial Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Colonial Beach added 134 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +62.

Colonial Beach covers 2.45 square miles of land and 0.33 of water, for 1,648 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Colonial Beach is close to the typical town.

What county Colonial Beach is in

All of Colonial Beach's residents live in Westmoreland County, which had 19,235 residents in 2024. Colonial Beach holds 21.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Colonial Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Colonial Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 22443. 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 Colonial Beach is

The Census internal point of Colonial Beach is at 38.264400, -76.993700. Richmond, the capital, is 55.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is La Plata, MD (11,374 people), 19.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Alexandria, VA, 38.6 miles away.

Daylight in Colonial Beach

At 38.26° N, Colonial Beach gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Colonial Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Bowling Green, 24.1 miles away, with 1,252 people.