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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-FORT-LUPTON-CO · Fort Lupton, CO 8,494 pop · income 43rd 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 Fort Lupton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fort Lupton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Trinidad · lowest
50,792
Trinidad · lowest
50,792 median HH income
34.2% of the leader · rank #1
Fort Braden · near
64,844
Fort Braden · near
64,844 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #2
Minden · near
64,846
Minden · near
64,846 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #3
Lakewood Park · near
64,848
Lakewood Park · near
64,848 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #4
Ochoco West · near
64,848
Ochoco West · near
64,848 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #5
Fort Lupton · this city
64,850
Fort Lupton · this city
64,850 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #6
Evergreen · highest
148,665
Evergreen · highest
148,665 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 Fort Lupton 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: 8,494.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fort Lupton - the verdict
Fort Lupton ranks in the 43rd percentile for household income and the 38th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
43rd
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
38th
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: Fort Lupton, CO
8,494 people live in Fort Lupton, Colorado - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $64,850 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.1%. Home values in Fort Lupton run a median of $372,400, and the median resident age is 34.3 years. About 12.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 164 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 228% from five years earlier. Fort Lupton reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1772.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Colorado carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Colorado at 103.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,429 per month statewide. 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 Fort Lupton'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility to population change to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fort Lupton, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, 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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Fort Lupton?
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 Gypsum (8,481 residents, $124,534 income); Evergreen (8,643 residents, $148,665 income); Trinidad (8,309 residents, $50,792 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Temperance, MI (8,495 residents); Ephrata, WA (8,493 residents); Malverne, NY (8,496 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Fort Lupton?
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 5.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Fort Lupton?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.1%. 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. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Is Fort Lupton growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,415 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +30.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 164 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 upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Fort Lupton?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 12.9% 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.
Poverty estimate
10.1%
Bachelor's degree+
12.9%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fort Lupton?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1772.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 22% lower 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.
Total reported rate
1772.8
Violent rate
270.4
Property rate
1502.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 10.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
F
City profile score · Fort Lupton, CO
33/100
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.
Household income D
$64,850
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
10.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
270 /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.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Fort Lupton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 42/100 (D) · $64,850
Poverty rate: 39/100 (F) · 10.1%
Violent crime: 37/100 (F) · 270 /100k
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 14/100 (F) · 12.9%
Where Fort Lupton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fort Lupton'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 - Fort Lupton highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Fort Lupton, CO (this city): home $372,400, crime 1,773/100k
Ephrata, WA : home $240,000, crime 3,107/100k
Hampton, GA : home $265,100, crime 593/100k
Liberty, TX : home $127,200, crime 2,395/100k
Gypsum, CO : home $553,600, crime 385/100k
Trinidad, CO : home $196,900, crime 3,743/100k
Milliken, CO : home $398,200, crime 538/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Fort Lupton compare to other US cities?
Where Fort Lupton sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income43% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety38% 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: Fort Lupton ranks #61 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 Fort Lupton 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 Fort Lupton near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fort Lupton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fort Lupton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#247 of 379
35th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#210 of 388
46th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#107 of 408
74th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#361 of 408
12th 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
43rd percentile nationally for median household income · 38th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fort Lupton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fort Lupton'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 Fort Lupton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$372,40025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
Fort Lupton's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,856 of 15,516
More affordable than 11% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,318 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.7×, Fort Lupton sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,856 of 15,516 and #10,318 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
$64,850Fort Lupton, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fort Lupton, 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 Fort Lupton, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,494
Median Income
$64,850
Median Home Value
$372,400
Median Age
34.3
Poverty Rate
10.1%
Labor force participation
63.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1772.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
270.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1502.4
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fort Lupton's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,987 residents
2021
8,262 residents
2022
8,800 residents
2023
9,444 residents
2024
9,973 residents
2025
10,402 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
164
housing units authorized
Single-Family
164
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
19.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
50
50
0
$9.7M
2020
125
125
0
$18.8M
2021
198
168
30
$26.7M
2022
271
227
44
$59.9M
2023
259
259
0
$60.0M
2024
164
164
0
$36.1M
Permit volume increased 228% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.1%
Carpool
13.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.8%
Work from Home
7.5%
Other
1.5%
Based on 4,059 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 Fort Lupton. 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 Fort Lupton 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 Fort Lupton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fort Lupton 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.