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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-SHERIDAN-CO · Sheridan, CO 6,031 pop · income 33rd 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 Sheridan
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sheridan on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lake City · lowest
35,000
Lake City · lowest
35,000 median HH income
14.0% of the leader · rank #1
Sheridan · this city
58,571
Sheridan · this city
58,571 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #2
Grenada · near
58,571
Grenada · near
58,571 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #3
Stewardson · near
58,571
Stewardson · near
58,571 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #4
Keswick · near
58,571
Keswick · near
58,571 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #5
Creighton · near
58,571
Creighton · near
58,571 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #6
Cherry Hills · highest
250,001
Cherry Hills · highest
250,001 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 Sheridan 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: 6,031.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sheridan - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Sheridan places in the 33rd percentile for household income and the 1st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
33rd
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
1st
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: Sheridan, CO
Sheridan is a small town in Colorado, home to 6,031 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Sheridan brings in $58,571 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.9%. Typical homes in Sheridan are valued around $360,900, and the median resident age is 35.1 years. 19.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 55.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in Sheridan (Construction Slowdown), down 93% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Sheridan's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 7905.5 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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. 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). Commute times here average 23.6 minutes, with 74.2% driving alone and 7.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Sheridan'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 reported crime to work and mobility to housing and income to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sheridan, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Sheridan?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 7905.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 247% higher 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Sheridan?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.6 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. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Sheridan?
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 6.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Sheridan?
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 Avon (6,057 residents, $85,364 income); Estes Park (5,879 residents, $73,313 income); Gleneagle (6,207 residents, $137,105 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wilmore, KY (6,031 residents); Pauls Valley, OK (6,031 residents); Nazareth, PA (6,032 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.
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.
Population change
Is Sheridan growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -131 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 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
6,103
2025 estimate
5,972
Period change
-2.1%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 11.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
F
City profile score · Sheridan, CO
25/100
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 F
19.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$58,571
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Violent crime F
924 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Sheridan profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 33/100 (F) · 19.4%
Household income: 32/100 (F) · $58,571
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 11.9%
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 924 /100k
Where Sheridan sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sheridan'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 - Sheridan highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Sheridan, CO (this city): home $360,900, crime 7,906/100k
Wilmore, KY : home $210,700, crime 473/100k
Pauls Valley, OK : home $84,100, crime 2,542/100k
Nazareth, PA : home $236,900, crime 758/100k
Lake City, SC : home $133,700, crime 6,552/100k
Solvang, CA : home $936,900, crime 996/100k
Avon, CO : home $689,000, crime 3,002/100k
Estes Park, CO : home $634,200, crime 1,017/100k
Eaton, CO : home $448,800, crime 858/100k
Salida, CO : home $583,400, crime 788/100k
How does Sheridan compare to other US cities?
Sheridan measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income33% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety1% 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: Sheridan ranks #113 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 Sheridan 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 Sheridan near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sheridan ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sheridan only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#272 of 379
28th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#219 of 388
44th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#86 of 408
79th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#305 of 408
25th 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
33rd percentile nationally for median household income · 1st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sheridan's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sheridan'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 Sheridan's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$360,90027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Sheridan's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,218 of 15,516
More affordable than 8% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,531 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 6.2×, Sheridan sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,218 of 15,516 and #10,531 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
$58,571Sheridan, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sheridan, 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 Sheridan, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,031
Median Income
$58,571
Median Home Value
$360,900
Median Age
35.1
Poverty Rate
11.9%
Labor force participation
55.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
7905.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
924.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
6981.5
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sheridan's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,103 residents
2021
6,050 residents
2022
5,985 residents
2023
5,977 residents
2024
6,010 residents
2025
5,972 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
27
13
14
$3.8M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
1
1
0
$0.5M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
143
1
142
$25.5M
2024
2
0
2
$0.5M
Permit volume decreased 93% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.6 minutes
Drive Alone
74.2%
Carpool
14.0%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
7.0%
Other
1.2%
Based on 2,560 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 Sheridan. 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 Sheridan 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 Sheridan sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sheridan 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, 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.