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SheetCO-ALLENSPARK-CO · Allenspark, CO 826 pop · income 89th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Allenspark
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Allenspark on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cripple Creek · lowest
39,198
Cripple Creek · lowest
39,198 median HH income
21.0% of the leader · rank #1
Bridgewater · near
125,000
Bridgewater · near
125,000 median HH income
67.1% of the leader · rank #2
Benicia · near
125,040
Benicia · near
125,040 median HH income
67.1% of the leader · rank #3
Allenspark · this city
125,048
Allenspark · this city
125,048 median HH income
67.1% of the leader · rank #4
Friendswood · near
125,052
Friendswood · near
125,052 median HH income
67.1% of the leader · rank #5
Gorham · near
125,058
Gorham · near
125,058 median HH income
67.1% of the leader · rank #6
Floyd Hill · highest
186,420
Floyd Hill · highest
186,420 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Allenspark on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 826.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Allenspark lands in the 89th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
89th
percentile, household income
94th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Allenspark, CO
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 826 residents in Allenspark, a small town within Colorado. The typical household in Allenspark brings in $125,048 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.5%. Home values in Allenspark run a median of $750,000, and the median resident age is 50.5 years. About 57.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 71.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA puts Allenspark's yearly average temperature at 39.5°F.
Colorado carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,429 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Colorado run around $202, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 40.7 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Allenspark's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Allenspark, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Allenspark?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
What does the journey to work look like in Allenspark?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 61.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Allenspark?
Within Colorado, the closest population matches are Mount Crested Butte (829 residents, $93,182 income); Cripple Creek (822 residents, $39,198 income); Poncha Springs (842 residents, $94,028 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Manila, CA (826 residents); Hedrick, IA (826 residents); Riley, KS (826 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
What physical conditions frame life in Allenspark?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 39.5°F. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Colorado is 40.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
B-
City profile score · Allenspark, CO
65/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A+
57.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$125,048
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
103.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Allenspark profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 90/100 (A+) · 57.7%
Household income: 88/100 (A) · $125,048
Poverty rate: 56/100 (C) · 6.5%
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
How does Allenspark compare to other US cities?
Here's how Allenspark stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value94% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Allenspark against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Colorado only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Colorado-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Allenspark near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Allenspark ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Allenspark only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#75 of 379
80th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#69 of 388
82nd percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#162 of 408
60th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#85 of 408
79th percentile in Colorado
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Colorado only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
89th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Allenspark's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$750,0006th percentilemore affordable than 6% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Allenspark's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,095 of 15,516
More affordable than 9% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,459 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 6.0×, Allenspark sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,095 of 15,516 and #10,459 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$125,048Allenspark, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Allenspark, CO median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Allenspark, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)57.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
826
Median Income
$125,048
Median Home Value
$750,000
Median Age
50.5
Poverty Rate
6.5%
Labor force participation
71.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
57.7%
Climate
Avg Temperature
39.5°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
61.9%
Carpool
14.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
22.8%
Other
0.7%
Based on 501 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Colorado statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $202
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Colorado at $202 (electricity about $90 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Colorado statewide averages, not a meter reading for Allenspark. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Colorado's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.1 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Allenspark is $1,429/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Colorado statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 40.7 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Colorado statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Allenspark sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Allenspark compares to similar-size Colorado cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NOAA Climate Normals, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.