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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-HOT-SULPHUR-SPRINGS-CO · Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 977 pop · income 71st 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 Hot Sulphur Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hot Sulphur Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ola · lowest
40,250
Ola · lowest
40,250 median HH income
17.2% of the leader · rank #1
Sorrento · near
90,192
Sorrento · near
90,192 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #2
Brightwood · near
90,208
Brightwood · near
90,208 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #3
Riverbank · near
90,216
Riverbank · near
90,216 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #4
Hot Sulphur S… · this city
90,221
Hot Sulphur S… · this city
90,221 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #5
Sedley · near
90,229
Sedley · near
90,229 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #6
Bow Mar · highest
233,667
Bow Mar · highest
233,667 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 Hot Sulphur Springs 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: 977.
Hot Sulphur Springs ranks in the 71st percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
71st
percentile, household income
75th
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: Hot Sulphur Springs, CO
Colorado's Hot Sulphur Springs is a small town, with 977 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Hot Sulphur Springs households earn a median of $90,221 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.2%. Typical homes in Hot Sulphur Springs are valued around $376,600, and the median resident age is 40.4 years. Educational attainment runs 27.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 69.7% 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,429 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Colorado's average monthly utility costs around $202 (state average). Commute times here average 15.2 minutes, with 68.5% driving alone and 15.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Hot Sulphur 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 work and mobility to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hot Sulphur Springs, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, 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
What does the journey to work look like in Hot Sulphur Springs?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.2 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. 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.
Is Hot Sulphur Springs growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -26 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.8% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Hot Sulphur 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 4.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hot Sulphur 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.
Within Colorado, the closest population matches are Upper Bear Creek (980 residents, $185,574 income); Gilcrest (987 residents, $66,771 income); Minturn (987 residents, $113,519 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ola, AR (977 residents); Underwood, IA (977 residents); Welcome, MN (977 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.
Above median income · poverty 6.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
C-
City profile score · Hot Sulphur Springs, CO
53/100
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.
Household income B-
$90,221
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.3%
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).
Hot Sulphur Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 69/100 (B-) · $90,221
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 53/100 (C-) · 27.3%
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
How does Hot Sulphur Springs compare to other US cities?
Hot Sulphur Springs measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value75% 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 Hot Sulphur 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 Hot Sulphur Springs near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hot Sulphur Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hot Sulphur Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#148 of 379
61st percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#202 of 388
48th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#167 of 408
59th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#235 of 408
42nd 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
71st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Hot Sulphur Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$376,60025th 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
Hot Sulphur Springs's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,180 of 15,516
More affordable than 28% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,677 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.2×, Hot Sulphur Springs sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,180 of 15,516 and #8,677 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$90,221Hot Sulphur Springs, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hot Sulphur 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 Hot Sulphur Springs, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
977
Median Income
$90,221
Median Home Value
$376,600
Median Age
40.4
Poverty Rate
6.2%
Labor force participation
69.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.3%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hot Sulphur Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
689 residents
2021
688 residents
2022
682 residents
2023
670 residents
2024
662 residents
2025
663 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.2 minutes
Drive Alone
68.5%
Carpool
14.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.4%
Work from Home
15.0%
Based on 533 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 Hot Sulphur 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 Hot Sulphur 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 Hot Sulphur Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hot Sulphur 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, 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.