You are just one minute away from learning the location of Colorado’s richest places.
There are a lot of wealthy people in Colorado and a lot of wealthy places that play to the state’s one percent.
We researched every place’s home price and median income with 3,000 residents. We ended up with 96 Centennial State cities that anyone with some cash in their pocket would be lucky to call home. And, yes, you’ll need a fat bank account if you think you’ll live in one of Colorado’s wealthiest places.
The median income in most of the top ten is close to $108,324/year. You’ll need a high-paying job if you want to live like royalty. But don’t wait too long because Colorado is one of the fastest-growing states in the country.
$250,001 median income · 2.3% poverty · #1 income in Colorado
The City of Cherry Hills Village is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 5987 at the 2010 United States Census. Cherry Hills Village is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is one of the most affluent places in Colorado and the United States. The city hosted two PGA Championships and the 2005 U.S. Women’s Open at the Cherry Hills Country Club. The community was named for a grove of cherry trees near the original town site.
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$149,029 median income · 3.1% poverty · #6 income in Colorado
The City of Greenwood Village is a Home Rule Municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The city is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010, the city has a total population of 13,925.
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$191,229 median income · 6.9% poverty · #2 income in Colorado
Located in
Douglas County, Colorado
The City of Castle Pines is statutory city located in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 10,360. By 2013, the United States Census Bureau estimated the population to have increased to 10,726. The city is situated 19 miles south-southeast of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. The city is located north of the Town of Castle Rock and south of the City of Lone Tree, Colorado.
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$138,191 median income · 8.3% poverty · #9 income in Colorado
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$159,434 median income · 3.2% poverty · #5 income in Colorado
Located in
Jefferson County, Colorado
Superior is a Statutory Town in Boulder County in the U.S. state of Colorado, with a small, uninhabited segment of land area extending into Jefferson County. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city was 12,483.
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$147,319 median income · 4.5% poverty · #7 income in Colorado
Located in
Boulder County, Colorado
Louisville Colorado is a Home Rule Municipality in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 18,376 at the 2010 United States Census. Louisville began as a rough mining community in 1877, suffered through a period of extraordinary labor violence early in the 20th century, and then, when the mines closed in the 1950s, made a transition to a suburban residential community. CNN/Money and Money magazine have consistently listed Louisville as one of the 100 best places to live in the United States, ranking it among the top 100 in 2007, 2009 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017.
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$173,349 median income · 2.3% poverty · #4 income in Colorado
Located in
Weld County, Colorado
The Town of Erie is a Statutory Town in Boulder and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. The population as of the 2010 census was 18,135, up from 6,291 at the 2000 census. Erie is located just west of Interstate 25, with easy access to Interstate 70, Denver International Airport and Colorado’s entire Front Range. Erie’s Planning Area spans 48 square miles, extending from the north side of State Highway 52 south to State Highway 7, and between US 287 on the west and Interstate 25 to the east. Erie is approximately 35 minutes from Denver International Airport, 25 minutes from Denver and 20 minutes from Boulder. The town was named after Erie, Pennsylvania, the former home of an early settler, Richard Van Valkenburg.
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$178,257 median income · 4.4% poverty · #3 income in Colorado
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$125,478 median income · 12.1% poverty · #16 income in Colorado
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$108,324 median income · 10.6% poverty · #28 income in Colorado
Located in
Garfield County, Colorado
The Town of Carbondale is a Home Rule Municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 6427 at the 2010 United States Census. The town is located in the Roaring Fork Valley, downstream from Aspen and upstream from the mouth of the Roaring Fork River at Glenwood Springs. The town proper sits on the south bank of the river, at the confluence of the Crystal River. Carbondale’s horizon is dominated by the 12,953ft tall Mount Sopris several miles to the south of town.
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Compare the top ten
Pick a metric. The bars rescale. The red line is Colorado’s statewide median.
Colorado statewide median: $95,470
Colorado statewide median: $541,842
Colorado statewide median: 9.4%
Colorado statewide median: 4.6%
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Where the money lives in Colorado
Saturday Night Science
How we determined the richest places in Colorado for 2026
The first thing most people reach for is personal income. After all, rich people have really high salaries. But one statistic doesn’t capture what it means to be one of the “richest places,” so we applied Saturday Night Science to two measures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey:
- Median household income
- Median home value
Median household income is the most digestible way to understand how rich a place is, and home values are a measure of accumulated wealth. The two combine to define a “Rich City.”
After collecting the data for all 96 places in Colorado with more than 3,000 people, we ranked each place from 1 to 96 on both criteria, then averaged the two ranks into a “Rich Score.” The place with the lowest Rich Score, Cherry Hills Village, is crowned the richest city in Colorado for 2026.
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All 96 richest cities in Colorado, ranked
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| Rank | City | Rich Score | Population | Median income | Median home value | Poverty | Unemployment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cherry Hills Village | 1.50 | 6,354 | $250,001 | $3,182,803 | 2.3% | 4.4% |
| 2 | Greenwood Village | 6.00 | 15,420 | $149,029 | $1,414,364 | 3.1% | 3.3% |
| 3 | Castle Pines | 7.00 | 13,388 | $191,229 | $895,088 | 6.9% | 2.6% |
| 4 | Breckenridge | 9.00 | 4,959 | $138,191 | $1,198,068 | 8.3% | 0.5% |
| 5 | Superior | 11.50 | 13,305 | $159,434 | $833,348 | 3.2% | 3.7% |
| 6 | Louisville | 12.00 | 20,786 | $147,319 | $837,473 | 4.5% | 3.6% |
| 7 | Erie | 12.50 | 33,808 | $173,349 | $725,091 | 2.3% | 3.1% |
| 8 | Timnath | 15.00 | 8,941 | $178,257 | $675,535 | 4.4% | 0.6% |
| 9 | Silverthorne | 16.00 | 4,815 | $125,478 | $855,203 | 12.1% | 8.6% |
| 10 | Carbondale | 16.00 | 6,637 | $108,324 | $1,437,953 | 10.6% | 2.4% |
| 11 | Monument | 16.50 | 11,735 | $128,816 | $755,938 | 4.7% | 4.3% |
| 12 | Lone Tree | 16.50 | 14,147 | $123,741 | $894,853 | 4.9% | 3.0% |
| 13 | Parker | 17.00 | 61,783 | $133,369 | $688,178 | 4.4% | 3.0% |
| 14 | Castle Rock | 18.00 | 79,123 | $145,197 | $672,107 | 3.8% | 4.4% |
| 15 | Eagle | 18.50 | 7,442 | $110,398 | $1,028,575 | 6.8% | 1.5% |
| 16 | Basalt | 19.50 | 4,335 | $105,855 | $1,417,793 | 7.3% | 3.4% |
| 17 | Centennial | 20.50 | 108,201 | $131,928 | $649,086 | 3.3% | 4.6% |
| 18 | Steamboat Springs | 21.00 | 13,433 | $104,964 | $1,310,883 | 4.7% | 3.0% |
| 19 | Vail | 21.50 | 4,613 | $98,893 | $1,769,335 | 6.4% | 7.4% |
| 20 | Gypsum | 24.00 | 8,941 | $115,564 | $699,183 | 9.6% | 0.9% |
| 21 | Lafayette | 24.50 | 30,602 | $119,040 | $676,851 | 5.6% | 3.8% |
| 22 | Broomfield | 26.00 | 76,304 | $123,874 | $632,201 | 6.2% | 3.8% |
| 23 | Windsor | 27.50 | 37,914 | $127,028 | $577,243 | 6.0% | 4.5% |
| 24 | Golden | 28.50 | 20,417 | $98,582 | $863,815 | 12.6% | 3.6% |
| 25 | Avon | 29.50 | 5,972 | $89,027 | $1,258,435 | 12.2% | 8.1% |
| 26 | Arvada | 29.50 | 122,634 | $117,348 | $616,566 | 5.8% | 3.8% |
| 27 | Frederick | 29.50 | 16,651 | $129,460 | $544,142 | 3.3% | 3.4% |
| 28 | Berthoud | 30.00 | 12,411 | $119,385 | $606,280 | 4.6% | 1.5% |
| 29 | Glenwood Springs | 30.50 | 10,241 | $91,481 | $869,621 | 7.9% | 4.5% |
| 30 | John | 30.50 | 18,883 | $128,995 | $542,747 | 3.7% | 4.2% |
| 31 | Mead | 31.00 | 5,919 | $125,357 | $556,278 | 1.4% | 2.3% |
| 32 | Firestone | 31.50 | 18,049 | $120,150 | $570,742 | 4.6% | 4.2% |
| 33 | Boulder | 32.00 | 106,433 | $87,493 | $964,531 | 21.5% | 6.0% |
| 34 | Aspen | 36.00 | 6,756 | $74,033 | $3,535,613 | 10.6% | 2.4% |
| 35 | Littleton | 36.50 | 44,710 | $98,839 | $634,610 | 6.1% | 3.8% |
| 36 | Severance | 38.00 | 10,130 | $124,572 | $495,599 | 5.2% | 2.3% |
| 37 | Silt | 41.00 | 3,642 | $93,690 | $614,870 | 2.6% | 0.5% |
| 38 | Estes Park | 41.00 | 5,844 | $85,956 | $684,046 | 8.0% | 0.8% |
| 39 | Commerce City | 42.50 | 66,445 | $111,972 | $490,702 | 8.7% | 4.3% |
| 40 | Durango | 43.00 | 19,411 | $78,602 | $747,772 | 13.0% | 3.1% |
| 41 | Brighton | 43.00 | 42,059 | $107,679 | $498,701 | 9.4% | 4.8% |
| 42 | Wheat Ridge | 43.00 | 32,070 | $90,564 | $606,404 | 11.2% | 5.0% |
| 43 | Woodland Park | 44.50 | 7,949 | $99,238 | $534,082 | 5.1% | 1.8% |
| 44 | Westminster | 44.50 | 115,484 | $100,272 | $527,654 | 7.3% | 3.7% |
| 45 | Dacono | 45.00 | 6,530 | $104,559 | $502,451 | 3.9% | 2.6% |
| 46 | Thornton | 45.00 | 144,187 | $103,088 | $502,945 | 7.0% | 4.5% |
| 47 | Lakewood | 45.50 | 156,583 | $89,792 | $573,913 | 9.2% | 4.5% |
| 48 | Longmont | 46.00 | 99,406 | $90,671 | $556,720 | 8.6% | 4.8% |
| 49 | Wellington | 46.50 | 11,798 | $107,017 | $470,775 | 8.8% | 6.5% |
| 50 | Denver | 47.00 | 718,877 | $94,718 | $539,666 | 11.2% | 4.9% |
| 51 | New Castle | 47.50 | 4,880 | $80,084 | $647,065 | 6.2% | 0.8% |
| 52 | Buena Vista | 48.00 | 3,010 | $78,323 | $662,440 | 7.3% | 12.4% |
| 53 | Eaton | 48.00 | 5,867 | $106,294 | $466,373 | 9.6% | 4.5% |
| 54 | Milliken | 49.50 | 8,871 | $107,500 | $450,807 | 2.4% | 0.5% |
| 55 | Salida | 49.50 | 5,861 | $70,045 | $700,439 | 11.1% | 1.6% |
| 56 | Fort Collins | 50.50 | 170,229 | $85,070 | $563,815 | 15.8% | 5.4% |
| 57 | Bennett | 50.50 | 3,663 | $107,736 | $435,056 | 4.2% | 1.8% |
| 58 | Manitou Springs | 52.50 | 4,735 | $85,000 | $544,349 | 11.2% | 11.8% |
| 59 | Englewood | 53.50 | 34,129 | $86,800 | $516,657 | 7.7% | 4.3% |
| 60 | Lochbuie | 53.50 | 8,609 | $97,009 | $464,474 | 7.7% | 2.3% |
| 61 | Edgewater | 53.50 | 4,932 | $76,591 | $590,329 | 15.2% | 6.5% |
| 62 | Gunnison | 57.00 | 6,766 | $62,189 | $620,585 | 22.1% | 6.3% |
| 63 | La Salle | 57.00 | 3,061 | $95,833 | $438,352 | 7.9% | 1.5% |
| 64 | Fruita | 57.00 | 13,691 | $87,184 | $480,864 | 4.1% | 2.5% |
| 65 | Loveland | 58.00 | 78,410 | $84,604 | $500,792 | 8.5% | 5.4% |
| 66 | Aurora | 59.50 | 394,432 | $88,368 | $463,081 | 11.9% | 5.9% |
| 67 | Rifle | 61.00 | 10,570 | $80,000 | $497,317 | 6.0% | 3.0% |
| 68 | Northglenn | 64.00 | 38,014 | $84,030 | $463,886 | 10.2% | 3.7% |
| 69 | Fort Lupton | 64.00 | 8,897 | $80,889 | $464,448 | 17.6% | 8.4% |
| 70 | Colorado Springs | 64.50 | 487,887 | $84,818 | $449,452 | 9.0% | 5.6% |
| 71 | Fountain | 66.50 | 29,300 | $86,242 | $394,609 | 10.3% | 5.4% |
| 72 | Montrose | 68.50 | 21,044 | $70,386 | $467,131 | 11.6% | 5.0% |
| 73 | Evans | 72.50 | 22,396 | $75,563 | $394,719 | 13.5% | 7.6% |
| 74 | Grand Junction | 74.50 | 68,142 | $70,080 | $422,320 | 11.8% | 4.8% |
| 75 | Greeley | 76.00 | 110,806 | $69,881 | $420,464 | 15.1% | 5.6% |
| 76 | Sheridan | 76.50 | 6,005 | $60,608 | $436,932 | 14.0% | 14.5% |
| 77 | Glendale | 78.00 | 4,531 | $71,250 | $327,809 | 16.1% | 1.7% |
| 78 | Craig | 78.50 | 8,991 | $72,636 | $304,797 | 8.9% | 2.5% |
| 79 | Brush | 78.50 | 5,306 | $73,382 | $298,242 | 14.2% | 7.7% |
| 80 | Federal Heights | 79.50 | 14,125 | $56,597 | $399,108 | 24.2% | 6.5% |
| 81 | Fort Morgan | 80.00 | 11,605 | $64,158 | $328,288 | 16.0% | 6.4% |
| 82 | Burlington | 80.00 | 3,152 | $74,308 | $248,845 | 9.2% | 2.8% |
| 83 | Orchard City | 81.50 | 3,221 | $55,960 | $378,787 | 21.5% | 4.7% |
| 84 | Cortez | 83.00 | 8,976 | $54,247 | $339,964 | 15.0% | 4.1% |
| 85 | Pueblo | 84.50 | 111,561 | $56,664 | $283,603 | 17.5% | 5.0% |
| 86 | Monte Vista | 85.00 | 4,141 | $61,684 | $269,190 | 30.9% | 20.7% |
| 87 | Delta | 86.50 | 9,421 | $45,250 | $368,018 | 20.5% | 3.7% |
| 88 | Alamosa | 87.50 | 9,879 | $49,688 | $314,612 | 15.9% | 4.4% |
| 89 | Florence | 89.00 | 3,885 | $50,262 | $278,110 | 12.2% | 2.2% |
| 90 | Lamar | 90.50 | 7,611 | $53,188 | $180,906 | 21.3% | 4.8% |
| 91 | Trinidad | 90.50 | 8,286 | $52,273 | $230,018 | 21.1% | 7.3% |
| 92 | Yuma | 90.50 | 3,459 | $48,338 | $271,030 | 31.5% | 8.9% |
| 93 | Walsenburg | 91.50 | 3,072 | $51,474 | $194,214 | 25.2% | 11.5% |
| 94 | La Junta | 91.50 | 7,140 | $52,315 | $158,563 | 27.4% | 7.9% |
| 95 | Sterling | 93.00 | 13,172 | $43,283 | $244,759 | 19.0% | 7.8% |
| 96 | Rocky Ford | 96.00 | 3,815 | $40,655 | $151,201 | 31.7% | 11.5% |
Source: U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024, Zillow research. 96 cities with more than 3,000 residents.
Cherry Hills Village is the richest place in Colorado for 2026
When we set out to identify the richest places in Colorado, we weren’t sure what we’d find, but it ended up being some of the best places to live in the state. The richest cities in Colorado are Cherry Hills Village, Greenwood Village, and Castle Pines, and when you look at the data they sit at the very top of the income ladder for everyone who lives there.
Breaking into the top ten takes a median household income of at least $108,324. If you’re curious about the other end of the ledger, the poorest places are listed to the right.
