What is the population of Meeker town?

Meeker town has 2,528 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #161 of 482 in Colorado.

What is the median household income in Meeker town?

Median household income in Meeker town is $71,301 a year, 9.2% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $992 a month and the median home value is $231,900, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Meeker town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Meeker, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Meeker, Colorado (Meeker, CO — Census place “Meeker town”) is 2,528 residents, ranking #161 of 482 places in Colorado. Median household income is $71,301, the median home is worth $231,900 and median gross rent runs $992 a month. Looking for the Meeker Colorado ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Meeker, CO: 81641.

Population: 2,528Meeker town residents
Median household income: $71,301Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $231,900Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $992Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 37.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 68%Owner-occupied households

Meeker ZIP codes (Colorado)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Meeker.

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

81641

What the numbers mean in Meeker town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Meeker town median would spend about 16.7% 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 3.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 9% of residents and 68% of households own their home.

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

Meeker town, CO in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Meeker town is a small town in Colorado, with 2,528 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #161 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 66% of them. The median age here is 37.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Meeker town earn a median of $71,301 a year, 9.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 18% 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 9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Meeker town is valued at $231,900, 23.6% below the national figure and 49% below the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $992 a month, 29.4% below the national figure, or roughly $11,904 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.7% 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 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 68% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 Meeker town?: Meeker town has 2,528 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #161 of 482 in Colorado.
What is the median household income in Meeker town?: Median household income in Meeker town is $71,301 a year, 9.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Meeker town?: Median gross rent is $992 a month and the median home value is $231,900, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.
Is Meeker town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Meeker town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Meeker town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.