[4] Coal Creek is a part of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

The town of Rockvale is to the west, Williamsburg is to the northwest, and the city of Florence is to the northeast.

At the 2020 United States Census, the town had a total area of 764 acres (3.092 km2), all of it land.

27.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 14.3% of families and 18.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 28.3% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.