What is the population of Center town?

Center town has 2,312 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #167 of 482 in Colorado.

What is the median household income in Center town?

Median household income in Center town is $50,057 a year, 36.3% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Center town?

Median gross rent is $478 a month and the median home value is $115,600, so rent absorbs about 11.5% of median household income.

Is Center town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Center town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 11.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Center, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Center, Colorado (Center, CO — Census place “Center town”) is 2,312 residents, ranking #167 of 482 places in Colorado. Median household income is $50,057, the median home is worth $115,600 and median gross rent runs $478 a month. Looking for the Center Colorado ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Center, CO: 81125.

Population: 2,312Center town residents
Median household income: $50,057Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $115,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $478Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 65.7%Owner-occupied households

Center ZIP codes (Colorado)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Center.

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

81125

What the numbers mean in Center town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Center town median would spend about 11.5% 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 2.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 26% of residents and 65.7% of households own their home.

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

Center town, CO in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Center town is a small town in Colorado, with 2,312 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #167 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 65% of them. The median age here is 36.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Center town earn a median of $50,057 a year, 36.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 42% below 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 26% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Center town is valued at $115,600, 61.9% below the national figure and 75% below the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $478 a month, 66% below the national figure, or roughly $5,736 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.5% 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 2.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 65.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Center town?: Center town has 2,312 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #167 of 482 in Colorado.
What is the median household income in Center town?: Median household income in Center town is $50,057 a year, 36.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Center town?: Median gross rent is $478 a month and the median home value is $115,600, so rent absorbs about 11.5% of median household income.
Is Center town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Center town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 11.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Center town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.