What is the population of Delta city?

Delta city has 9,266 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #74 of 482 in Colorado.

What is the median household income in Delta city?

Median household income in Delta city is $46,010 a year, 41.4% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $982 a month and the median home value is $238,100, so rent absorbs about 25.6% of median household income.

Is Delta city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 5.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Delta city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 25.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Delta, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Delta, Colorado (Delta, CO — Census place “Delta city”) is 9,266 residents, ranking #74 of 482 places in Colorado. Median household income is $46,010, the median home is worth $238,100 and median gross rent runs $982 a month. Looking for the Delta Colorado ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Delta, CO: 81416.

Population: 9,266Delta city residents
Median household income: $46,010Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $238,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $982Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 64.4%Owner-occupied households

Delta ZIP codes (Colorado)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Delta.

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

81416

What the numbers mean in Delta city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Delta city median would spend about 25.6% 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 5.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 19.5% of residents and 64.4% of households own their home.

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

Delta city, CO in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Delta city is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 9,266 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #74 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 41.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Delta city earn a median of $46,010 a year, 41.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 47% below the $86,484 median for the 223 Colorado cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 19.5% 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 Delta city is valued at $238,100, 21.5% below the national figure and 48% below the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $982 a month, 30.2% below the national figure, or roughly $11,784 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 25.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 64.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

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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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Delta city?: Delta city has 9,266 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #74 of 482 in Colorado.
What is the median household income in Delta city?: Median household income in Delta city is $46,010 a year, 41.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Delta city?: Median gross rent is $982 a month and the median home value is $238,100, so rent absorbs about 25.6% of median household income.
Is Delta city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 5.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Delta city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 25.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Delta 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.