What is the population of Fruita city?

Fruita city has 13,578 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #54 of 482 in Colorado.

What is the median household income in Fruita city?

Median household income in Fruita city is $77,680 a year, 1.1% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,275 a month and the median home value is $361,500, so rent absorbs about 19.7% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 4.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Fruita city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Fruita, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Fruita, Colorado (Fruita, CO — Census place “Fruita city”) is 13,578 residents, ranking #54 of 482 places in Colorado. Median household income is $77,680, the median home is worth $361,500 and median gross rent runs $1,275 a month. Looking for the Fruita Colorado ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Fruita, CO: 81521.

Population: 13,578Fruita city residents
Median household income: $77,680Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $361,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,275Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 40.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 80.5%Owner-occupied households

Fruita ZIP codes (Colorado)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Fruita.

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

81521

What the numbers mean in Fruita city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Fruita city median would spend about 19.7% 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 4.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 3.9% of residents and 80.5% of households own their home.

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

Fruita city, CO in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Fruita city is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 13,578 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #54 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 40.8 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 Fruita city earn a median of $77,680 a year, 1.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 10% 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 3.9% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fruita city is valued at $361,500, 19.1% above the national figure and 20% below the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,275 a month, 9.3% below the national figure, or roughly $15,300 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.7% 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 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 80.5% 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.

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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What is the population of Fruita city?: Fruita city has 13,578 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #54 of 482 in Colorado.
What is the median household income in Fruita city?: Median household income in Fruita city is $77,680 a year, 1.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Fruita city?: Median gross rent is $1,275 a month and the median home value is $361,500, so rent absorbs about 19.7% of median household income.
Is Fruita city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Fruita city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Fruita 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.