What is the population of Cañon City city?

Cañon City city has 17,098 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #47 of 482 in Colorado.

What is the median household income in Cañon City city?

Median household income in Cañon City city is $66,068 a year, 15.9% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Cañon City city?

Median gross rent is $931 a month and the median home value is $275,300, so rent absorbs about 16.9% of median household income.

Is Cañon City city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Cañon City city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Cañon City, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Cañon City, Colorado (Cañon City, CO — Census place “Cañon City city”) is 17,098 residents, ranking #47 of 482 places in Colorado. Median household income is $66,068, the median home is worth $275,300 and median gross rent runs $931 a month. Looking for the Cañon City Colorado ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Cañon City, CO: 81212.

Population: 17,098Cañon City city residents
Median household income: $66,068Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $275,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $931Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 46 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 70.1%Owner-occupied households

Cañon City ZIP codes (Colorado)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Cañon City.

The Cañon City CO ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

81212

What the numbers mean in Cañon City city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Cañon City city median would spend about 16.9% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 4.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 13.1% of residents and 70.1% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Cañon City city, CO in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Cañon City city is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 17,098 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #47 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 90% of them. The median age here is 46 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 Cañon City city earn a median of $66,068 a year, 15.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 24% below the $86,484 median for the 223 Colorado cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 13.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Cañon City city is valued at $275,300, 9.3% below the national figure and 39% below the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $931 a month, 33.8% below the national figure, or roughly $11,172 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 70.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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What is the population of Cañon City city?: Cañon City city has 17,098 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #47 of 482 in Colorado.
What is the median household income in Cañon City city?: Median household income in Cañon City city is $66,068 a year, 15.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Cañon City city?: Median gross rent is $931 a month and the median home value is $275,300, so rent absorbs about 16.9% of median household income.
Is Cañon City city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Cañon City city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Cañon City city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.