Shaw Heights, CO population, income and ZIP codes

Shaw Heights CDP is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 5,309 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #112 of 482 ranked by population — larger than 76% of them. The median age here is 34.8 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 Shaw Heights CDP earn a median of $89,125 a year, 13.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 3% above 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 7.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Shaw Heights CDP is valued at $452,700, 49.2% above the national figure and within a couple of points of the $453,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,986 a month, 41.3% above the national figure, or roughly $23,832 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.7% 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 5.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 80.6% 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. 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.