State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Colorado
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,761 ± $7 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 52.9% ± 0.5 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 25.8% ± 0.4 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $70,440. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | $1,761 ± $7 | 52.9% | 25.8% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Colorado
- Adams County$1,781 median gross rent · 57.4% rent burden
- Alamosa County$907 median gross rent · 37.2% rent burden
- Arapahoe County$1,891 median gross rent · 56.4% rent burden
- Archuleta County$1,432 median gross rent · 50.5% rent burden
- Baca County$592 median gross rent · 49.2% rent burden
- Bent County$1,162 median gross rent · 58.9% rent burden
- Boulder County$1,966 median gross rent · 59.9% rent burden
- Broomfield County$2,126 median gross rent · 44.2% rent burden
- Chaffee County$1,611 median gross rent · 59.8% rent burden
- Clear Creek County$1,467 median gross rent · 58.8% rent burden
- Conejos County$748 median gross rent · 42.5% rent burden
- Costilla County$927 median gross rent · 50.2% rent burden
- Crowley County$984 median gross rent · 52.4% rent burden
- Custer County$1,069 median gross rent · 49.5% rent burden
- Delta County$1,121 median gross rent · 57.4% rent burden
- Denver County$1,831 median gross rent · 47.6% rent burden
- Douglas County$2,193 median gross rent · 51.3% rent burden
- Eagle County$2,019 median gross rent · 64.7% rent burden
- El Paso County$1,696 median gross rent · 54.8% rent burden
- Elbert County$1,311 median gross rent · 41.4% rent burden
- Fremont County$1,070 median gross rent · 45.1% rent burden
- Garfield County$1,637 median gross rent · 46.2% rent burden
- Grand County$1,493 median gross rent · 42.9% rent burden
- Gunnison County$1,252 median gross rent · 50.8% rent burden
- Hinsdale County$1,171 median gross rent · 5.3% rent burden
- Jefferson County$1,861 median gross rent · 52.9% rent burden
- Kiowa County$800 median gross rent · 35.9% rent burden
- Kit Carson County$973 median gross rent · 39.5% rent burden
- La Plata County$1,504 median gross rent · 52.6% rent burden
- Lake County$1,397 median gross rent · 61.8% rent burden
- Larimer County$1,716 median gross rent · 55.4% rent burden
- Las Animas County$891 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
- Lincoln County$868 median gross rent · 34.8% rent burden
- Logan County$1,013 median gross rent · 49.3% rent burden
- Mesa County$1,182 median gross rent · 48.7% rent burden
- Mineral County$928 median gross rent · 59.2% rent burden
- Moffat County$1,039 median gross rent · 33.5% rent burden
- Montezuma County$942 median gross rent · 57% rent burden
- Montrose County$1,188 median gross rent · 49.2% rent burden
- Morgan County$1,025 median gross rent · 51.3% rent burden
- Otero County$839 median gross rent · 46.3% rent burden
- Ouray County$1,786 median gross rent · 46.6% rent burden
- Park County$2,161 median gross rent · 35.1% rent burden
- Phillips County$999 median gross rent · 33.9% rent burden
- Pitkin County$2,004 median gross rent · 53.3% rent burden
- Prowers County$808 median gross rent · 59.1% rent burden
- Pueblo County$1,111 median gross rent · 52.4% rent burden
- Rio Blanco County$919 median gross rent · 28.6% rent burden
- Rio Grande County$945 median gross rent · 38.8% rent burden
- Routt County$1,917 median gross rent · 56.9% rent burden
- San Miguel County$1,149 median gross rent · 53.5% rent burden
- Sedgwick County$774 median gross rent · 57.8% rent burden
- Summit County$1,928 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
- Teller County$1,880 median gross rent · 54.6% rent burden
- Washington County$947 median gross rent · 35.9% rent burden
- Weld County$1,539 median gross rent · 55.5% rent burden
- Yuma County$942 median gross rent · 50.5% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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