Rock Springs, Wyoming

Rock Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Rock Springs lost 528 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by -21. Among 16 Wyoming places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by +0.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wyoming has 11,214 people, so Rock Springs is 2.0 times that size.

Rock Springs covers 19.75 square miles of land, for 1,163 people per square mile of land. The median Wyoming place of 5,000+ has 1,493, so Rock Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rock Springs is in

All of Rock Springs's residents live in Sweetwater County, which had 41,273 residents in 2024. Rock Springs holds 55.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rock Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rock Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 82901. 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 Rock Springs is

The Census internal point of Rock Springs is at 41.594700, -109.220900. Cheyenne, the capital, is 230.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Logan, UT (56,770 people), 135.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salt Lake City, UT, 151.8 miles away.

Daylight in Rock Springs

At 41.59° N, Rock Springs gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rock Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wyoming, measured between internal points. The closest is Green River, 14.1 miles away, with 11,474 people.