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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-FOUNTAIN-CO · Fountain, CO 29,327 pop · income 67th 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 Fountain
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fountain on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jacksonville · lowest
46,947
Jacksonville · lowest
46,947 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #1
Forest Lakes · near
85,242
Forest Lakes · near
85,242 median HH income
52.1% of the leader · rank #2
Fountain · this city
85,246
Fountain · this city
85,246 median HH income
52.1% of the leader · rank #3
Loxley · near
85,250
Loxley · near
85,250 median HH income
52.1% of the leader · rank #4
Hunter · near
85,250
Hunter · near
85,250 median HH income
52.1% of the leader · rank #5
New Berlin · near
85,250
New Berlin · near
85,250 median HH income
52.1% of the leader · rank #6
Erie · highest
163,644
Erie · highest
163,644 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 Fountain 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: 29,327.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fountain - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Fountain places in the 67th percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
67th
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
25th
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: Fountain, CO
Colorado's Fountain is a small city, with 29,327 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Fountain brings in $85,246 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.8%. Fountain's housing stock carries a median value of $374,600, and the median resident age is 31.1 years. Educational attainment runs 32.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2375.4 in FBI UCR data, near 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. 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. 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 Fountain'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 work and mobility to housing and income 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 Fountain, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, 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 Fountain?
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 Lafayette (30,471 residents, $110,431 income); Erie (31,927 residents, $163,644 income); Wheat Ridge (32,158 residents, $87,598 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Englewood, NJ (29,342 residents); Texarkana, AR (29,343 residents); Fleming Island, FL (29,351 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 Fountain?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.5%. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Fountain?
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 4.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Fountain growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -433 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.4% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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.
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 Fountain?
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 10 public schools within the city match. 32.6% 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
5.8%
Bachelor's degree+
32.6%
Matched public schools
10
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fountain?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2375.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 4% 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.
Total reported rate
2375.4
Violent rate
481.5
Property rate
1893.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 5.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
D
City profile score · Fountain, CO
46/100
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 B-
$85,246
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.8%
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 F
482 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Fountain profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 65/100 (B-) · $85,246
Bachelor's+ share: 62/100 (C+) · 32.6%
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.8%
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Violent crime: 17/100 (F) · 482 /100k
Where Fountain sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fountain'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 - Fountain highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Fountain, CO (this city): home $374,600, crime 2,375/100k
Englewood, NJ : home $497,500, crime 1,309/100k
Texarkana, AR : home $162,700, crime 4,398/100k
Kirkwood, MO : home $421,500, crime 1,609/100k
Jacksonville, AR : home $155,300, crime 4,911/100k
Lafayette, CO : home $647,600, crime 2,953/100k
Erie, CO : home $685,900, crime 926/100k
Wheat Ridge, CO : home $584,700, crime 4,947/100k
Englewood, CO : home $534,000, crime 5,908/100k
How does Fountain compare to other US cities?
Where Fountain sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income67% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety25% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Colorado, Fountain ranks #74 of 116 Colorado cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Fountain 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 Fountain near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fountain ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fountain only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#172 of 379
55th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#205 of 388
47th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#176 of 408
56th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#209 of 408
49th 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
67th percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fountain's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fountain'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 Fountain's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$374,60025th 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
Fountain's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,755 of 15,516
More affordable than 24% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,284 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.4×, Fountain sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,755 of 15,516 and #2,284 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$85,246Fountain, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fountain, 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 Fountain, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
29,327
Median Income
$85,246
Median Home Value
$374,600
Median Age
31.1
Poverty Rate
5.8%
Labor force participation
59.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2375.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
481.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1893.9
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fountain's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
29,883 residents
2021
29,700 residents
2022
28,931 residents
2023
28,545 residents
2024
29,430 residents
2025
29,450 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.5%
Carpool
7.3%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
8.5%
Other
1.7%
Based on 14,207 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 Fountain. 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 Fountain 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 Fountain sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fountain 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.