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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-TRINIDAD-CO · Trinidad, CO 8,309 pop · income 21st pct · 6 tracts
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 Trinidad
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Trinidad on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pulaski · lowest
45,420
Pulaski · lowest
45,420 median HH income
26.4% of the leader · rank #1
Trinidad · this city
50,792
Trinidad · this city
50,792 median HH income
29.5% of the leader · rank #2
Bessemer · near
50,792
Bessemer · near
50,792 median HH income
29.5% of the leader · rank #3
Moshannon · near
50,795
Moshannon · near
50,795 median HH income
29.5% of the leader · rank #4
White Stone · near
50,795
White Stone · near
50,795 median HH income
29.5% of the leader · rank #5
Keene · near
50,796
Keene · near
50,796 median HH income
29.5% of the leader · rank #6
Timnath · highest
172,206
Timnath · highest
172,206 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 Trinidad 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: 8,309.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Trinidad - the verdict
Nationally, Trinidad sits in the 21st percentile for household income and the 9th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
21st
percentile, household income
42nd
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
9th
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: Trinidad, CO
Trinidad is a small town in Colorado, home to 8,309 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Trinidad report a median income of $50,792 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 10.7%. Trinidad's housing stock carries a median value of $196,900, and the median resident age is 42.0 years. 15.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 53.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 1 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 97% from five years earlier. Trinidad's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 3742.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Trinidad's yearly average temperature at 54.0°F with 14.9 inches of precipitation per year and 55.1 inches of snowfall.
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Colorado run around $202, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Trinidad'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 work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to housing and income to schools and households to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Trinidad, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Trinidad growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -248 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in Trinidad?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Trinidad?
Within Colorado, the closest population matches are Twin Lakes CDP (Adams County) (8,279 residents, $93,818 income); Lochbuie (8,142 residents, $88,548 income); Gypsum (8,481 residents, $124,534 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are North Madison, OH (8,309 residents); Runnemede, NJ (8,310 residents); Mount Joy, PA (8,310 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.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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 Trinidad?
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 3742.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 64% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2972.1
Violent rate
770.5
Total reported rate
3742.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Trinidad?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.7%, 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. 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.
Household income
$50,792
Home value
$196,900
Value / income
3.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 15.9% 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.
Matched public schools
4
Bachelor's degree+
15.9%
Poverty estimate
10.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 54.0°F, with 14.9 inches of precipitation and 55.1 inches of annual snowfall. 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
54.0°F
Annual precipitation
14.9 in
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.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
F
City profile score · Trinidad, CO
22/100
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.
Poverty rate F
10.7%
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$50,792
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
771 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Trinidad profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 37/100 (F) · 10.7%
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 23/100 (F) · 15.9%
Household income: 21/100 (F) · $50,792
Violent crime: 3/100 (F) · 771 /100k
Where Trinidad sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Trinidad'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 - Trinidad highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Trinidad, CO (this city): home $196,900, crime 3,743/100k
Runnemede, NJ : home $217,500, crime 2,017/100k
Mount Joy, PA : home $241,300, crime 431/100k
Senatobia, MS : home $208,000, crime 1,840/100k
Pulaski, TN : home $168,200, crime 2,827/100k
Lochbuie, CO : home $373,800, crime 990/100k
Gypsum, CO : home $553,600, crime 385/100k
Fort Lupton, CO : home $372,400, crime 1,773/100k
Timnath, CO : home $717,300, crime 938/100k
How does Trinidad compare to other US cities?
Here's how Trinidad stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income21% higher than other cities
Home value42% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
Safety9% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Colorado alone, Trinidad ranks #98 of 116 Colorado cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Trinidad 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 Trinidad near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Trinidad ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Trinidad only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#315 of 379
17th percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#314 of 388
19th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#97 of 408
76th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#339 of 408
17th 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
21st percentile nationally for median household income · 9th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Trinidad's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Trinidad'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 Trinidad's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$196,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 58% 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
Trinidad's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,313 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,117 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Trinidad sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,313 of 15,516 and #8,117 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$50,792Trinidad, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Trinidad, 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 Trinidad, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,309
Median Income
$50,792
Median Home Value
$196,900
Median Age
42.0
Poverty Rate
10.7%
Labor force participation
53.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3742.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
770.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2972.1
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
54.0°F
Annual Precipitation
14.9"
Annual Snowfall
55.1"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Trinidad's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,339 residents
2021
8,347 residents
2022
8,284 residents
2023
8,241 residents
2024
8,178 residents
2025
8,091 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
30
4
26
$3.1M
2020
5
5
0
$1.4M
2021
4
4
0
$1.3M
2022
6
6
0
$2.1M
2023
6
6
0
$2.6M
2024
1
1
0
$0.3M
Permit volume decreased 97% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.4%
Carpool
17.7%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
3.5%
Work from Home
8.0%
Other
4.3%
Based on 3,633 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 Trinidad. 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 Trinidad 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 Trinidad sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Trinidad 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.