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SheetCO-PARKER-CO · Parker, CO 60,115 pop · income 90th 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 Parker
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Parker on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Owensboro · lowest
53,295
Owensboro · lowest
53,295 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #1
Parker · this city
129,342
Parker · this city
129,342 median HH income
90.4% of the leader · rank #2
Littleton Com… · near
129,347
Littleton Com… · near
129,347 median HH income
90.4% of the leader · rank #3
Aspen Springs · near
129,349
Aspen Springs · near
129,349 median HH income
90.4% of the leader · rank #4
Montauk · near
129,375
Montauk · near
129,375 median HH income
90.5% of the leader · rank #5
Cary · near
129,399
Cary · near
129,399 median HH income
90.5% of the leader · rank #6
Castle Rock · highest
143,031
Castle Rock · highest
143,031 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 Parker 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: 60,115.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Parker - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Parker places in the 90th percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
90th
percentile, household income
90th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
36th
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: Parker, CO
Parker is a small city in Colorado, home to 60,115 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $129,342 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.4%. Typical homes in Parker are valued around $613,200, and the median resident age is 36.2 years. Educational attainment runs 53.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 74.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 418 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 12% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1856.8 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 49.7°F.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,429 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Colorado's average monthly utility costs around $202 (state average). 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 Parker'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to climate and hazard context to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Parker, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, 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. Population change
Is Parker growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +7,248 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 418 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Parker?
Within Colorado, the closest population matches are Commerce City (64,640 residents, $106,756 income); Grand Junction (67,027 residents, $66,676 income); Broomfield (75,110 residents, $121,025 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Owensboro, KY (60,112 residents); Revere, MA (59,933 residents); Stonecrest, GA (59,917 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.
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.
The NCES join finds 26 public schools within the city match. 53.7% 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.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Parker?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Parker?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Household income
$129,342
Home value
$613,200
Value / income
4.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 49.7°F. 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.
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.
Mean temperature
49.7°F
FEMA risk index (state avg)
40.7
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Parker?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1856.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 19% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1647.7
Violent rate
209.1
Total reported rate
1856.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
B-
City profile score · Parker, CO
67/100
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+
$129,342
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
53.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
209 /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.
Parker profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 90/100 (A+) · $129,342
Bachelor's+ share: 87/100 (A) · 53.7%
Poverty rate: 83/100 (A-) · 2.4%
Violent crime: 46/100 (D) · 209 /100k
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Where Parker sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Parker'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 - Parker highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Parker, CO (this city): home $613,200, crime 1,857/100k
Owensboro, KY : home $162,900, crime 3,266/100k
Revere, MA : home $566,200, crime 1,980/100k
Chapel Hill, NC : home $576,500, crime 2,687/100k
Euless, TX : home $294,500, crime 2,293/100k
Great Falls, MT : home $237,400, crime 4,001/100k
Commerce City, CO : home $463,200, crime 3,663/100k
Grand Junction, CO : home $358,300, crime 3,716/100k
Broomfield, CO : home $631,600, crime 2,004/100k
Littleton, CO : home $596,700, crime 2,732/100k
Castle Rock, CO : home $621,700, crime 974/100k
Loveland, CO : home $453,100, crime 2,333/100k
How does Parker compare to other US cities?
Where Parker sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value90% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety36% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Colorado and the picture shifts: Parker ranks #63 of 116 Colorado cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Parker 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 Parker near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Parker ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Parker only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#63 of 379
83rd percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#102 of 388
74th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#261 of 408
36th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#107 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
90th percentile nationally for median household income · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Parker's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Parker'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 Parker's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$613,20010th percentilemore affordable than 10% 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
Parker's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,450 of 15,516
More affordable than 20% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#417 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.7×, Parker sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,450 of 15,516 and #417 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$129,342Parker, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Parker, 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 Parker, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)53.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)74.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
60,115
Median Income
$129,342
Median Home Value
$613,200
Median Age
36.2
Poverty Rate
2.4%
Labor force participation
74.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
53.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1856.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
209.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1647.7
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
49.7°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
26
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Parker's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
58,737 residents
2021
60,342 residents
2022
61,128 residents
2023
62,721 residents
2024
65,216 residents
2025
65,985 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
418
housing units authorized
Single-Family
382
detached homes
Multifamily
36
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
475
417
58
$158.5M
2020
657
400
257
$187.4M
2021
1,015
639
376
$311.5M
2022
799
743
56
$294.3M
2023
1,200
574
626
$379.4M
2024
418
382
36
$175.1M
Permit volume decreased 12% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.3%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
24.5%
Other
0.9%
Based on 33,823 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 Parker. 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 Parker 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 Parker sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Parker 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, 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.