Glenwood Springs, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Glenwood Springs city is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 10,171 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #70 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 85% of them. The median age here is 35.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Glenwood Springs city earn a median of $87,000 a year, 10.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of 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 8.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Glenwood Springs city is valued at $592,000, 95.1% above the national figure and 31% above the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,717 a month, 22.1% above the national figure, or roughly $20,604 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.7% 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 6.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 52.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Home values sit at 6.8× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.

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.