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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-LAS-ANIMAS-CO · Las Animas, CO 2,480 pop · income 18th pct · 2 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 Las Animas
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Las Animas on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cedaredge · lowest
41,944
Cedaredge · lowest
41,944 median HH income
21.1% of the leader · rank #1
Las Animas · this city
48,917
Las Animas · this city
48,917 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #2
Bloomington · near
48,918
Bloomington · near
48,918 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #3
Kettleman · near
48,920
Kettleman · near
48,920 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #4
Mantua · near
48,920
Mantua · near
48,920 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #5
Monte Rio · near
48,922
Monte Rio · near
48,922 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #6
Sterling Ranch · highest
198,750
Sterling Ranch · highest
198,750 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 Las Animas 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: 2,480.
Las Animas ranks in the 18th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
18th
percentile, household income
14th
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: Las Animas, CO
Colorado's Las Animas is a small town, with 2,480 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Las Animas brings in $48,917 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 33.6%. Las Animas's housing stock carries a median value of $111,500, and the median resident age is 40.2 years. Educational attainment runs 13.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 43.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 0 residential building permits were authorized in Las Animas (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. NOAA puts Las Animas's yearly average temperature at 54.5°F with 13.6 inches of precipitation per year and 16.2 inches of snowfall.
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,429 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Colorado's average monthly utility costs around $202 (state average). 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 Las Animas'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to population change to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Las Animas, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Las Animas?
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 Meeker (2,528 residents, $71,301 income); Sterling Ranch (2,530 residents, $198,750 income); Park Center (2,544 residents, $68,882 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pajaro, CA (2,480 residents); Pine Ridge, SD (2,480 residents); Walnut Hill, TN (2,480 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 Las Animas?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 33.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Las Animas?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.4%. 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.
What can 2 Census tracts reveal inside Las Animas?
PlainCities matches 2 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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Las Animas?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 54.5°F, with 13.6 inches of precipitation and 16.2 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Colorado is 40.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
40.7
Annual precipitation
13.6 in
Mean temperature
54.5°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the education layer cover for Las Animas?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 13.1% 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
33.6%
Bachelor's degree+
13.1%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Las Animas growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +29 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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.
2020 estimate
2,296
2025 estimate
2,325
Period change
+1.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Low income · poverty 33.6% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
F
City profile score · Las Animas, CO
15/100
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.
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.
Household income F
$48,917
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
13.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
33.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Las Animas profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Household income: 19/100 (F) · $48,917
Bachelor's+ share: 15/100 (F) · 13.1%
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 33.6%
How does Las Animas compare to other US cities?
Las Animas measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income18% higher than other cities
Home value14% 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 Las Animas 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 Las Animas near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Las Animas ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Las Animas only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#323 of 379
15th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#366 of 388
6th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#11 of 408
97th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#360 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
18th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Las Animas's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$111,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 86% 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
Las Animas's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,847 of 15,516
More affordable than 82% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,636 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.3×, Las Animas sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,847 of 15,516 and #2,636 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
$48,917Las Animas, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Las Animas, 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 Las Animas, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)13.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)33.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)43.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,480
Median Income
$48,917
Median Home Value
$111,500
Median Age
40.2
Poverty Rate
33.6%
Labor force participation
43.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
13.1%
Climate
Avg Temperature
54.5°F
Annual Precipitation
13.6"
Annual Snowfall
16.2"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Las Animas's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,296 residents
2021
2,344 residents
2022
2,328 residents
2023
2,382 residents
2024
2,349 residents
2025
2,325 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1
1
0
$0.0M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
2
2
0
$0.2M
2022
19
19
0
$3.5M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.4%
Carpool
12.3%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
8.6%
Based on 860 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 Las Animas. 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 Las Animas 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 Las Animas sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Las Animas 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.