What is the population of Ordway town?

Ordway town has 1,718 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #183 of 482 in Colorado.

What is the median household income in Ordway town?

Median household income in Ordway town is $55,313 a year, 29.6% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,045 a month and the median home value is $99,200, so rent absorbs about 22.7% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 1.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ordway town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Ordway, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Ordway, Colorado (Ordway, CO — Census place “Ordway town”) is 1,718 residents, ranking #183 of 482 places in Colorado. Median household income is $55,313, the median home is worth $99,200 and median gross rent runs $1,045 a month. Looking for the Ordway Colorado ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Ordway, CO: 81063.

Population: 1,718Ordway town residents
Median household income: $55,313Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $99,200Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,045Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 62.1%Owner-occupied households

Ordway ZIP codes (Colorado)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Ordway.

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

81063

What the numbers mean in Ordway town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Ordway town median would spend about 22.7% 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 1.8× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 18.9% of residents and 62.1% of households own their home.

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

Ordway town, CO in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Ordway town is a small town in Colorado, with 1,718 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #183 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 62% of them. The median age here is 39.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Ordway town earn a median of $55,313 a year, 29.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 36% below the $86,484 median for the 223 Colorado cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 18.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ordway town is valued at $99,200, 67.3% below the national figure and 78% below the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,045 a month, 25.7% below the national figure, or roughly $12,540 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.7% 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 1.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 62.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

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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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Ordway town?: Ordway town has 1,718 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #183 of 482 in Colorado.
What is the median household income in Ordway town?: Median household income in Ordway town is $55,313 a year, 29.6% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ordway town?: Median gross rent is $1,045 a month and the median home value is $99,200, so rent absorbs about 22.7% of median household income.
Is Ordway town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ordway town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Ordway 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.