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SheetCO-EDGEWATER-CO · Edgewater, CO 4,955 pop · income 55th 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 Edgewater
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Edgewater on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Robbins · lowest
37,594
Robbins · lowest
37,594 median HH income
20.3% of the leader · rank #1
Mogadore · near
74,313
Mogadore · near
74,313 median HH income
40.1% of the leader · rank #2
Edgewater · this city
74,320
Edgewater · this city
74,320 median HH income
40.1% of the leader · rank #3
Berrydale · near
74,327
Berrydale · near
74,327 median HH income
40.1% of the leader · rank #4
Brighton · near
74,327
Brighton · near
74,327 median HH income
40.1% of the leader · rank #5
Canal Lewisvi… · near
74,327
Canal Lewisvi… · near
74,327 median HH income
40.1% of the leader · rank #6
Todd Creek · highest
185,417
Todd Creek · highest
185,417 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Edgewater on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 4,955.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Edgewater - the verdict
Nationally, Edgewater sits in the 55th percentile for household income and the 0th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
55th
percentile, household income
89th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
0th
percentile, safety
📝 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: Edgewater, CO
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 4,955 residents in Edgewater, a small town within Colorado. The typical household in Edgewater brings in $74,320 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.8%. Typical homes in Edgewater are valued around $603,400, and the median resident age is 33.8 years. Educational attainment runs 41.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 79.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 5 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 400% from five years earlier. Edgewater's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 10305.7 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Colorado carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Colorado scores 103.1 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,429 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Colorado run around $202, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 40.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Edgewater'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Edgewater, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Edgewater?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 41.7% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Which cities make useful reference points for Edgewater?
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Colorado, the closest population matches are Breckenridge (5,001 residents, $132,666 income); New Castle (4,878 residents, $88,421 income); Meridian (5,058 residents, $90,496 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Gilmer, TX (4,955 residents); Oakhurst, CA (4,956 residents); Robbins, IL (4,956 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Edgewater?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Edgewater?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 10305.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 352% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Edgewater?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 8.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
8.1×
Home value
$603,400
Household income
$74,320
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Edgewater growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -135 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 5 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
2020 estimate
5,005
2025 estimate
4,870
Period change
-2.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 9.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
D
City profile score · Edgewater, CO
45/100
5 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 B+
41.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C-
$74,320
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
310 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Edgewater profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 77/100 (B+) · 41.7%
Household income: 54/100 (C-) · $74,320
Poverty rate: 40/100 (D) · 9.8%
Violent crime: 32/100 (F) · 310 /100k
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Where Edgewater sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Edgewater's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Edgewater highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Edgewater, CO (this city): home $603,400, crime 10,306/100k
Gilmer, TX : home $160,700, crime 2,816/100k
Mineola, TX : home $205,600, crime 1,960/100k
Creedmoor, NC : home $260,000, crime 1,915/100k
Houlton, ME : home $121,700, crime 1,563/100k
Breckenridge, CO : home $757,100, crime 3,325/100k
New Castle, CO : home $488,600, crime 804/100k
Manitou Springs, CO : home $545,800, crime 1,784/100k
Vail, CO : home $1,040,100, crime 4,315/100k
How does Edgewater compare to other US cities?
Here's how Edgewater stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income55% higher than other cities
Home value89% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety0% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Colorado and the picture shifts: Edgewater ranks #114 of 116 Colorado cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Edgewater 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 Edgewater near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Edgewater ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Edgewater only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#214 of 379
44th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#104 of 388
73rd percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#109 of 408
73rd percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#166 of 408
59th 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
55th percentile nationally for median household income · 0th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Edgewater's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Edgewater's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Edgewater's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$603,40011th percentilemore affordable than 11% 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
Edgewater's home-value-to-income ratio: 8.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,074 of 15,516
More affordable than 3% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,063 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 8.1×, Edgewater sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,074 of 15,516 and #11,063 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
$74,320Edgewater, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Edgewater, 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 Edgewater, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)41.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)79.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,955
Median Income
$74,320
Median Home Value
$603,400
Median Age
33.8
Poverty Rate
9.8%
Labor force participation
79.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
41.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
10305.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
309.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
9995.9
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Edgewater's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,005 residents
2021
4,954 residents
2022
4,904 residents
2023
4,895 residents
2024
4,890 residents
2025
4,870 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
5
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1
1
0
$0.3M
2020
5
3
2
$1.5M
2021
58
3
55
$14.3M
2022
13
3
10
$4.6M
2023
6
4
2
$2.9M
2024
5
5
0
$2.3M
Permit volume increased 400% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.7%
Carpool
3.7%
Public Transit
5.3%
Walk
2.5%
Work from Home
18.3%
Other
1.5%
Based on 3,331 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 Edgewater. 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 Edgewater 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 Edgewater sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Edgewater 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, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, 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.