What is the population of Mead town?

Mead town has 5,503 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #109 of 482 in Colorado.

What is the median household income in Mead town?

Median household income in Mead town is $116,074 a year, 47.8% above the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,583 a month and the median home value is $552,100, so rent absorbs about 16.4% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 4.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Mead town is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Mead, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Mead, Colorado (Mead, CO — Census place “Mead town”) is 5,503 residents, ranking #109 of 482 places in Colorado. Median household income is $116,074, the median home is worth $552,100 and median gross rent runs $1,583 a month. Looking for the Mead Colorado ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Mead, CO: 80542.

Population: 5,503Mead town residents
Median household income: $116,074Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $552,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,583Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 38.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 93.5%Owner-occupied households

Mead ZIP codes (Colorado)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Mead.

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

80542

What the numbers mean in Mead town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Mead town median would spend about 16.4% 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 4.8× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 1% of residents and 93.5% of households own their home.

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

Mead town, CO in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Mead town is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 5,503 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #109 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 77% of them. The median age here is 38.1 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 Mead town earn a median of $116,074 a year, 47.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 34% above 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 1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mead town is valued at $552,100, 82% above the national figure and 22% above the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,583 a month, 12.6% above the national figure, or roughly $18,996 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.4% 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 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 93.5% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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 Mead town?: Mead town has 5,503 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #109 of 482 in Colorado.
What is the median household income in Mead town?: Median household income in Mead town is $116,074 a year, 47.8% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Mead town?: Median gross rent is $1,583 a month and the median home value is $552,100, so rent absorbs about 16.4% of median household income.
Is Mead town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Mead town is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Mead town 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.