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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-SWINK-CO · Swink, CO 502 pop · income 24th 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 Swink
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Swink on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Nazlini · lowest
30,417
Nazlini · lowest
30,417 median HH income
22.0% of the leader · rank #1
Beacon Square · near
52,598
Beacon Square · near
52,598 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #2
Swink · this city
52,604
Swink · this city
52,604 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #3
Shelburne Fal… · near
52,604
Shelburne Fal… · near
52,604 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #4
Gwinn · near
52,609
Gwinn · near
52,609 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #5
South Houston · near
52,611
South Houston · near
52,611 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #6
Twin Lakes CD… · highest
138,025
Twin Lakes CD… · highest
138,025 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 Swink 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: 502.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Swink lands in the 24th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
24th
percentile, household income
24th
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: Swink, CO
Colorado's Swink is a small town, with 502 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Swink report a median income of $52,604 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.6%. Swink's housing stock carries a median value of $140,600, and the median resident age is 43.6 years. Educational attainment runs 17.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 52.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 0 residential building permits were authorized in Swink (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $202 across Colorado, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 14.7 minutes, with 90.2% driving alone and 9.8% 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 Swink'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Swink, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Swink?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Swink?
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 Mountain View (500 residents, $108,269 income); Twin Lakes CDP (Lake County) (504 residents, $138,025 income); Pine Brook Hill (497 residents). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Nazlini, AZ (502 residents); Boulevard, CA (502 residents); El Portal, CA (502 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.
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 17.4% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -28 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -4.6% 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 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Swink?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 90.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.7 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
90.2%
Work from home
9.8%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 235 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
F
City profile score · Swink, CO
33/100
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.
Poverty rate C
6.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Household income F
$52,604
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Swink profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 55/100 (C) · 6.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 27/100 (F) · 17.4%
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Household income: 24/100 (F) · $52,604
How does Swink compare to other US cities?
Swink measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income24% higher than other cities
Home value24% 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 Swink 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 Swink near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Swink ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Swink only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#301 of 379
21st percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#344 of 388
11th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#160 of 408
61st percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#327 of 408
20th 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
24th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Swink's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$140,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 76% 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
Swink's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,885 of 15,516
More affordable than 69% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,302 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Swink sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,885 of 15,516 and #4,302 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
$52,604Swink, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Swink, 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 Swink, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
502
Median Income
$52,604
Median Home Value
$140,600
Median Age
43.6
Poverty Rate
6.6%
Labor force participation
52.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.4%
Schools
Total Schools
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Swink's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
607 residents
2021
610 residents
2022
601 residents
2023
595 residents
2024
585 residents
2025
579 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
$0.3M
2020
3
3
0
$0.9M
2021
2
2
0
$0.6M
2022
0
0
0
-
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
Average Commute Time
14.7 minutes
Drive Alone
90.2%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
9.8%
Based on 235 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 Swink. 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 Swink 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 Swink sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Swink 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, 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.