ZIP code 80459

ZIP 80459 is a small town in Grand County, Colorado, with 2,691 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #262 of 528 ranked by population — larger than 50% of them. The median age here is 30.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 ZIP 80459 earn a median of $77,823 a year, essentially level with the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 15.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 80459 is valued at $353,500, 16.5% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,598 a month, 13.7% above the national figure, or roughly $19,176 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.6% 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 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82.3% 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. 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.

ZIP 80459 is tabulated inside Grand County, Colorado, one of 8 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 528 across Colorado. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 80459 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 80459 reports a median household income of $77,823, 11% below the $87,762 county median, and 4% below the $80,917 typical CO ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $353,500, 38% below the county figure and 18% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,598 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Colorado charges 2.9% statewide, and local governments overlapping 80459 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 80459 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.