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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-MANITOU-SPRINGS-CO · Manitou Springs, CO 4,796 pop · income 58th 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 Manitou Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Manitou Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ahoskie · lowest
40,762
Ahoskie · lowest
40,762 median HH income
22.9% of the leader · rank #1
Willow Creek · near
76,542
Willow Creek · near
76,542 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #2
Manitou Sprin… · this city
76,550
Manitou Sprin… · this city
76,550 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #3
Huber Heights · near
76,551
Huber Heights · near
76,551 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #4
Chattahoochee… · near
76,552
Chattahoochee… · near
76,552 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #5
Colona · near
76,558
Colona · near
76,558 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #6
Ottawa Hills · highest
177,656
Ottawa Hills · highest
177,656 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 Manitou 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: 4,796.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Manitou Springs - the verdict
Manitou Springs ranks in the 58th percentile for household income and the 37th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
58th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
37th
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: Manitou Springs, CO
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 4,796 residents in Manitou Springs, a small town within Colorado. Median household income here is $76,550 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.8%. Home values in Manitou Springs run a median of $545,800, and the median resident age is 44.9 years. 53.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 63.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Manitou Springs reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1784.1 incidents per 100,000 residents, below 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,429 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $202 across Colorado, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Manitou 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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to population change to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Manitou Springs, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Manitou 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 Vail (4,729 residents, $103,705 income); New Castle (4,878 residents, $88,421 income); Silverthorne (4,657 residents, $114,185 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ottawa Hills, OH (4,796 residents); Rockport, MA (4,795 residents); Westlake, LA (4,794 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 education layer cover for Manitou 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 3 public schools within the city match. 53.4% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Manitou Springs?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 62.6%. 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. 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 Manitou Springs growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -302 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -6.2% 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Manitou Springs?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1784.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 22% 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
1784.1
Violent rate
132.2
Property rate
1652.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Manitou 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 7.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
7.1×
Home value
$545,800
Household income
$76,550
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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
C
City profile score · Manitou Springs, CO
57/100
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 A
53.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C+
132 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C+
5.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C
$76,550
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Manitou Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 87/100 (A) · 53.4%
Violent crime: 63/100 (C+) · 132 /100k
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.8%
Household income: 56/100 (C) · $76,550
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Where Manitou Springs sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Manitou 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 - Manitou Springs highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Manitou Springs, CO (this city): home $545,800, crime 1,784/100k
Ottawa Hills, OH : home $306,300, crime 774/100k
Rockport, MA : home $694,300, crime 169/100k
Westlake, LA : home $168,200, crime 2,188/100k
Ahoskie, NC : home $123,800, crime 4,760/100k
Platte City, MO : home $195,000, crime 1,176/100k
Vail, CO : home $1,040,100, crime 4,315/100k
New Castle, CO : home $488,600, crime 804/100k
Silverthorne, CO : home $691,300, crime 2,288/100k
Edgewater, CO : home $603,400, crime 10,306/100k
Breckenridge, CO : home $757,100, crime 3,325/100k
Glendale, CO : home $398,800, crime 21,674/100k
How does Manitou Springs compare to other US cities?
Manitou Springs measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income58% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety37% 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, Manitou Springs ranks #62 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 Manitou 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 Manitou Springs near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Manitou Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Manitou Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#200 of 379
47th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#131 of 388
66th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#176 of 408
56th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#108 of 408
74th 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
58th percentile nationally for median household income · 37th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Manitou Springs's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Manitou 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 Manitou Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$545,80013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
#14,724 of 15,516
More affordable than 5% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,830 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 7.1×, Manitou Springs sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,724 of 15,516 and #10,830 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$76,550Manitou Springs, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Manitou 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 Manitou Springs, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)53.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,796
Median Income
$76,550
Median Home Value
$545,800
Median Age
44.9
Poverty Rate
5.8%
Labor force participation
63.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
53.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1784.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
132.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1652.0
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Manitou Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,879 residents
2021
4,834 residents
2022
4,711 residents
2023
4,625 residents
2024
4,593 residents
2025
4,577 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
62.6%
Carpool
4.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
4.0%
Work from Home
26.5%
Other
2.9%
Based on 2,741 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 Manitou 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 Manitou 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 Manitou Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Manitou 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.