Colonial Heights, Virginia

Colonial Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Colonial Heights added 508 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +228. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 18th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Colonial Heights is 1.1 times that size.

Colonial Heights covers 7.52 square miles of land and 0.27 of water, for 2,483 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Colonial Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Colonial Heights is in

All of Colonial Heights's residents live in Colonial Heights city, which had 18,674 residents in 2024. Colonial Heights holds 100.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Colonial Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Colonial Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 23834. 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 Colonial Heights is

The Census internal point of Colonial Heights is at 37.261700, -77.396800. Richmond, the capital, is 19.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Petersburg, VA (34,058 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Richmond, VA, 19.1 miles away.

Daylight in Colonial Heights

At 37.26° N, Colonial Heights gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Colonial Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Petersburg, 3.9 miles away, with 34,058 people.