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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-EL-MORO-CO · El Moro, CO 203 pop · income 82nd 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 El Moro
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest El Moro on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kennedyville · lowest
35,527
Kennedyville · lowest
35,527 median HH income
21.3% of the leader · rank #1
Taylor Corners · near
107,614
Taylor Corners · near
107,614 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #2
Salem · near
107,617
Salem · near
107,617 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #3
Rendon · near
107,618
Rendon · near
107,618 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #4
El Moro · this city
107,625
El Moro · this city
107,625 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #5
Renningers · near
107,632
Renningers · near
107,632 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #6
Mountain Mead… · highest
166,761
Mountain Mead… · highest
166,761 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 El Moro 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: 203.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, El Moro places in the 82nd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
82nd
percentile, household income
43rd
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: El Moro, CO
El Moro is a small town in Colorado, home to 203 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in El Moro report a median income of $107,625 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Home values in El Moro run a median of $201,700, and the median resident age is 57.2 years. Educational attainment runs 23.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 77.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,429 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $202 across Colorado, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for El Moro workers runs 13.0 minutes, with 71.8% driving alone and 17.6% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 40.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of El Moro'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; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For El Moro, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in El Moro?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, 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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
What does the journey to work look like in El Moro?
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 71.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 13.0 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for El Moro?
Within Colorado, the closest population matches are Mountain Meadows (205 residents, $166,761 income); Silver Plume (206 residents, $51,458 income); Crowley (199 residents, $47,188 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Old River, CA (203 residents); Alvord, IA (203 residents); Barclay, MD (203 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.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
B-
City profile score · El Moro, 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.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A-
$107,625
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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).
El Moro profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $107,625
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.2%
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
How does El Moro compare to other US cities?
El Moro measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income82% higher than other cities
Home value43% 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 El Moro 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 El Moro near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, El Moro ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares El Moro only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#103 of 379
73rd percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#311 of 388
20th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#302 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#270 of 408
33rd 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
82nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How El Moro's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$201,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 57% 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
El Moro's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,217 of 15,516
More affordable than 92% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,175 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.9×, El Moro sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,217 of 15,516 and #1,175 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$107,625El Moro, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context El Moro, 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 El Moro, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)77.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
203
Median Income
$107,625
Median Home Value
$201,700
Median Age
57.2
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
77.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.2%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
13.0 minutes
Drive Alone
71.8%
Carpool
10.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
17.6%
Based on 142 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 El Moro. 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 El Moro 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 El Moro sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How El Moro 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, 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.