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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-LOUISVILLE-CO · Louisville, CO 20,788 pop · income 94th 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 Louisville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Louisville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hammond · lowest
41,222
Hammond · lowest
41,222 median HH income
22.5% of the leader · rank #1
Bayou Gauche · near
149,107
Bayou Gauche · near
149,107 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #2
Goodmanville · near
149,120
Goodmanville · near
149,120 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #3
El Segundo · near
149,149
El Segundo · near
149,149 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #4
Louisville · this city
149,159
Louisville · this city
149,159 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #5
Riverside · near
149,219
Riverside · near
149,219 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #6
North Bellmore · highest
183,250
North Bellmore · highest
183,250 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 Louisville 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: 20,788.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Louisville - the verdict
Nationally, Louisville sits in the 94th percentile for household income and the 34th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
94th
percentile, household income
95th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
34th
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: Louisville, CO
20,788 people live in Louisville, Colorado - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Louisville households earn a median of $149,159 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.7%. Home values in Louisville run a median of $835,000, and the median resident age is 41.8 years. 68.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 67.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 89 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 178% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1917.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Colorado carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,429 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $202 across Colorado, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Louisville workers runs 15.1 minutes, with 51.3% driving alone and 36.4% working from home. 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 Louisville'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 schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Louisville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Louisville?
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 6 public schools within the city match. 68.1% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Louisville?
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 5.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Louisville?
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 Montrose (20,703 residents, $63,177 income); Golden (20,467 residents, $95,913 income); Four Square Mile (21,788 residents, $73,318 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hammond, LA (20,790 residents); North Liberty, IA (20,782 residents); North Bellmore, NY (20,776 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 Louisville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 51.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.1 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Louisville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1917.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 16% 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
1917.0
Violent rate
129.1
Property rate
1787.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Louisville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -624 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 89 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 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.
2020 estimate
21,205
2025 estimate
20,581
Period change
-2.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
B
City profile score · Louisville, CO
73/100
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 A+
$149,159
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
68.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C+
129 /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.
Louisville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 96/100 (A+) · $149,159
Bachelor's+ share: 96/100 (A+) · 68.1%
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.7%
Violent crime: 64/100 (C+) · 129 /100k
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Where Louisville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Louisville'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 - Louisville highlighted among 25 peers.Read the chart values
Louisville, CO (this city): home $835,000, crime 1,917/100k
North Liberty, IA : home $300,000, crime 467/100k
Montrose, CO : home $359,000, crime 2,451/100k
Golden, CO : home $790,500, crime 2,511/100k
Evans, CO : home $326,300, crime 1,925/100k
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 Louisville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Louisville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income94% higher than other cities
Home value95% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety34% 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, Louisville ranks #65 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 Louisville 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 Louisville near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Louisville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Louisville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#40 of 379
89th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#46 of 388
88th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#250 of 408
38th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#49 of 408
88th 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
94th percentile nationally for median household income · 34th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Louisville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Louisville'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 Louisville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$835,0005th percentilemore affordable than 5% 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
Louisville's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,699 of 15,516
More affordable than 12% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,853 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.6×, Louisville sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,699 of 15,516 and #2,853 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
$149,159Louisville, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Louisville, 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 Louisville, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)68.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
20,788
Median Income
$149,159
Median Home Value
$835,000
Median Age
41.8
Poverty Rate
2.7%
Labor force participation
67.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
68.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1917.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
129.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1787.8
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Louisville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
21,205 residents
2021
20,883 residents
2022
20,498 residents
2023
20,500 residents
2024
20,754 residents
2025
20,581 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
89
housing units authorized
Single-Family
89
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
32
32
0
$7.6M
2020
47
35
12
$11.7M
2021
13
13
0
$10.8M
2022
165
141
24
$138.5M
2023
233
233
0
$204.9M
2024
89
89
0
$78.1M
Permit volume increased 178% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.1 minutes
Drive Alone
51.3%
Carpool
5.3%
Public Transit
2.5%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
36.4%
Other
2.3%
Based on 10,798 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 Louisville. 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 Louisville 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 Louisville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Louisville 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.