Colorado cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Colorado, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Denver city".

The largest place in Colorado is Denver city with 713,734 residents, and the 482 places on this page hold 5,049,752 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $8,839 to $250,001, and median home values range from $23,200 to $2,000,001 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Most of what is listed for Colorado is small. 54% of the 482 places here hold fewer than a thousand residents, while 20 carry 50,000 or more and account between them for 66% of the state's 5,049,752 counted people. The ranking below is really two lists stacked together: a short one of cities and a very long one of villages. These are mostly very small areas — the median place counts 828 residents. Rankings at the bottom of this list are within each other's margin of error, so treat close positions as ties.

Colorado sits on the expensive side of the national picture without being an outlier: $376,600 median home value on $78,666 of income is 4.8 years of gross earnings against 3.9 nationally. Median gross rent runs $1,318 including utilities, or about 20% of median household income annually.

Incomes fan out sharply inside Colorado. Strip the outliers and the top-decile place still earns 3.56× the bottom-decile one ($149,758 against $42,083); include them and Cherry Hills Village city tops the list at $250,001 and Crestone town anchors the bottom at $8,839. A single "Colorado average" is averaging across two different economies.

About one row in 7 is incomplete — 74 of 482 places have a suppressed estimate, almost all of them at the small end. Five-year estimates average responses over sixty months, so what is published is a stable baseline rather than a reading of this month's market.

How many places does Colorado have? 482 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. 54% of them have fewer than a thousand residents, so the list is far longer than the number of towns you would recognise by name.

Which Colorado row should I compare mine against? Pick places within roughly the same population band. In a state this spread out, size drives the housing and income figures more than region does.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.