Black Forest, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Black Forest CDP is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 14,658 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #51 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 89% of them. The median age here is 48.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Black Forest CDP earn a median of $142,173 a year, 81% above the national figure of $78,538 and 64% above the $86,484 median for the 223 Colorado cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 2.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Black Forest CDP is valued at $805,200, 165.4% above the national figure and 78% above the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 95.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

The Census withheld gross rent for Black Forest CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.