Fort Carson, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Fort Carson CDP is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 18,447 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #44 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 91% of them. The median age here is 22.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Fort Carson CDP earn a median of $61,783 a year, 21.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 29% 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 11.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Carson CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $2,046 a month, 45.5% above the national figure, or roughly $24,552 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 39.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 22.1 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for Fort Carson 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.