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SheetCO-GLENWOOD-SPRINGS-CO · Glenwood Springs, CO 10,171 pop · income 68th pct · 6 tracts
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 Glenwood Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Glenwood Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Alamosa · lowest
46,969
Alamosa · lowest
46,969 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #1
Glenwood Spri… · this city
87,000
Glenwood Spri… · this city
87,000 median HH income
53.1% of the leader · rank #2
Bluffton · near
87,000
Bluffton · near
87,000 median HH income
53.1% of the leader · rank #3
Elgin · near
87,000
Elgin · near
87,000 median HH income
53.1% of the leader · rank #4
Woodbranch · near
87,000
Woodbranch · near
87,000 median HH income
53.1% of the leader · rank #5
Quincy · near
87,008
Quincy · near
87,008 median HH income
53.1% of the leader · rank #6
Fairmount · highest
163,785
Fairmount · highest
163,785 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 Glenwood Springs 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: 10,171.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Glenwood Springs - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Glenwood Springs lands in the 68th percentile for household income and the 4th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
68th
percentile, household income
89th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
4th
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: Glenwood Springs, CO
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 10,171 residents in Glenwood Springs, a small town within Colorado. Median household income here is $87,000 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.1%. Typical homes in Glenwood Springs are valued around $592,000, and the median resident age is 35.7 years. Educational attainment runs 38.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 75.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 58 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 48% from five years earlier. Glenwood Springs's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 4770.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than 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). 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. Commute times here average 25.2 minutes, with 67.7% driving alone and 7.8% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Glenwood Springs'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 population change to housing and income to schools and households to within-city variation to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Glenwood Springs, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Glenwood Springs growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +390 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 58 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Glenwood Springs?
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 6.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can 6 Census tracts reveal inside Glenwood Springs?
PlainCities matches 6 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Glenwood Springs?
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 Edwards (10,415 residents, $90,735 income); Gunbarrel (10,424 residents, $111,506 income); Rifle (10,466 residents, $80,629 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cross Lanes, WV (10,172 residents); Molalla, OR (10,168 residents); Alderwood Manor, WA (10,168 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.
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 Glenwood Springs?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 38.1% 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
4.1%
Bachelor's degree+
38.1%
Matched public schools
7
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Glenwood Springs?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 67.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.2 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
67.7%
Work from home
7.8%
Public transit
2.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,212 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Glenwood Springs?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4770.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 109% 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
4770.7
Violent rate
309.7
Property rate
4461.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 4.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
C-
City profile score · Glenwood Springs, CO
53/100
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
38.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B-
$87,000
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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.
Glenwood Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 38.1%
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.1%
Household income: 66/100 (B-) · $87,000
Violent crime: 32/100 (F) · 310 /100k
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Where Glenwood Springs sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Glenwood Springs'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 - Glenwood Springs highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Glenwood Springs, CO (this city): home $592,000, crime 4,771/100k
Molalla, OR : home $416,900, crime 825/100k
Snohomish, WA : home $599,600, crime 1,773/100k
Alpena, MI : home $110,400, crime 1,504/100k
Rifle, CO : home $377,900, crime 1,311/100k
Alamosa, CO : home $200,200, crime 5,724/100k
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 Glenwood Springs compare to other US cities?
Here's how Glenwood Springs stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income68% higher than other cities
Home value89% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety4% 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, Glenwood Springs ranks #104 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 Glenwood Springs 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 Glenwood Springs near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Glenwood Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Glenwood Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#163 of 379
57th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#111 of 388
71st percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#218 of 408
47th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#181 of 408
55th 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
68th percentile nationally for median household income · 4th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Glenwood Springs's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Glenwood Springs'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 Glenwood Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$592,00011th 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,586 of 15,516
More affordable than 6% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,087 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.8×, Glenwood Springs sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,586 of 15,516 and #3,087 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$87,000Glenwood Springs, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Glenwood Springs, 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 Glenwood Springs, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)75.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,171
Median Income
$87,000
Median Home Value
$592,000
Median Age
35.7
Poverty Rate
4.1%
Labor force participation
75.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4770.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
309.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
4461.0
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Glenwood Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,005 residents
2021
10,352 residents
2022
10,301 residents
2023
10,331 residents
2024
10,423 residents
2025
10,395 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
58
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
56
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
111
0
111
$47.5M
2020
114
0
114
$48.7M
2021
152
0
152
$65.6M
2022
9
2
7
$2.0M
2023
25
1
24
$3.8M
2024
58
2
56
$15.1M
Permit volume decreased 48% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.2 minutes
Drive Alone
67.7%
Carpool
12.6%
Public Transit
2.2%
Walk
5.3%
Work from Home
7.8%
Other
4.4%
Based on 6,212 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 Glenwood Springs. 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 Glenwood Springs 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 Glenwood Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Glenwood Springs 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.