Rio Blanco ZIP codes — Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Rio Blanco County is a mid-size town in Colorado, with 6,518 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 39.1 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 Rio Blanco County earn a median of $72,620 a year, 7.5% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 Rio Blanco County is valued at $243,400, 19.8% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $924 a month, 34.3% below the national figure, or roughly $11,088 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.3% 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 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 75.9% 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.

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.