Whitest cities in Colorado research summary. We analyzed Colorado’s most recent Census data to determine the whitest cities in Colorado based on the percentage of White residents.
88.6% White · #1 whitest in Colorado
Located in
Larimer County, Colorado
The Town of Estes Park is a statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. A popular summer resort and the location of the headquarters for Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park lies along the Big Thompson River. Estes Park had a population of 5,858 at the 2010 census. Landmarks include The Stanley Hotel and The Baldpate Inn. The town overlooks Lake Estes and Olympus Dam.
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85.1% White · #2 whitest 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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84.8% White · #3 whitest in Colorado
Located in
Mesa County, Colorado
The City of Fruita is a Home Rule Municipality located in western Mesa County, Colorado, United States. Fruita is part of the Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical Area and within the Grand Valley. The geography is identified by the bordering Colorado River on the southern edge of town, the Uncompahgre Plateau known for its pinyon-juniper landscape, and the Book Cliffs range on the northern edge of the Grand Valley. The population was 12,646 at the 2010 census. Originally home to the Ute people, white farmers settled the town after founder William Pabor in 1884. Ten years later, Fruita was incorporated.
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83.3% White · #4 whitest in Colorado
Located in
Teller County, Colorado
The City of Woodland Park is a Home Rule Municipality that is the most populous city in Teller County, Colorado, United States and is immediately west of El Paso County and the unincorporated community of Crystola. Many residents in this bedroom community, which is surrounded by the one-million acre Pike National Forest, make the 17-mile commute to Colorado Springs. Ute Pass lies 12 miles to the west of Woodland Park on US 24. The population was 6,515 at the 2000 census. Nearby Douglas County is about a fifteen-minute drive from the city.
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82.3% White · #5 whitest in Colorado
Located in
Jefferson County, Colorado
Golden is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Golden lies along Clear Creek at the base of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Founded during the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush on 16 June 1859, the mining camp was originally named Golden City in honor of Thomas L. Golden. Golden City served as the capital of the provisional Territory of Jefferson from 1860 to 1861, and capital of the official Territory of Colorado from 1862 to 1867. In 1867, the territorial capital was moved about 12 miles east to Denver City. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 18,867 in 2010.
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82.3% White · #6 whitest in Colorado
Located in
Weld County, Colorado
The Town of Berthoud is a Statutory Town in Larimer and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. The town population was 5,105 at the 2010 United States Census. Berthoud is situated north of the Little Thompson River, approximately halfway between the cities of Fort Collins, Colorado and Denver, Colorado along the Front Range Urban Corridor.
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81.8% White · #7 whitest in Colorado
Located in
Chaffee County, Colorado
The City of Salida is a Statutory City that is the county seat and most populous city of Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The population was 5,236 at the 2010 census.
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80.8% White · #8 whitest in Colorado
Located in
Weld County, Colorado
The Town of Windsor is a Home Rule Municipality in Larimer and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. According to June 2016 estimates, the population of the town was 24,500. Windsor is located in the region known as Northern Colorado. Windsor is situated 59 miles north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
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79.0% White · #9 whitest in Colorado
Located in
Pitkin County, Colorado
Aspen is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. Its population was 6,658 at the 2010 United States Census. Aspen is in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains’ Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains, along the Roaring Fork River at an elevation just below 8,000 feet above sea level on the Western Slope, 11 miles west of the Continental Divide.
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78.6% White · #10 whitest 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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Methodology: How we determined the whitest places in Colorado for 2026
To rank the whitest places in Colorado, we used Saturday Night Science to look at Census demographic data.
We had to look at the number of white people living in each city in Colorado on a per capita basis. In other words, the percentage of white people living in each city in Colorado.
We looked at table B03002: Hispanic OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE. Here are the category names as defined by the Census:
- Hispanic or Latino
- White alone*
- Black or African American alone*
- American Indian and Alaska Native alone*
- Asian alone*
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone*
- Some other race alone*
- Two or more races*
Our particular column of interest here was the number of people who identified as White alone.
We limited our analysis to places with a population greater than 5,000 people. That left us with 69 cities.
We then calculated the percentage of residents that are White. The percentages ranked from 88.6% to 28.2%.
Finally, we ranked each city based on the percentage of the White population, with a higher percentage being more White. Estes Park took the distinction of being the most White, while Federal Heights was the least White city.
We updated this article for 2026. This report represents our eleventh time ranking the whitest cities in Colorado.
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Cities In Colorado By White Population
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| Rank | City | Population | White Population | % White |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Estes Park | 5,844 | 5,179 | 88.6% |
| 2 | Cherry Hills Village | 6,354 | 5,409 | 85.1% |
| 3 | Fruita | 13,691 | 11,609 | 84.8% |
| 4 | Woodland Park | 7,949 | 6,622 | 83.3% |
| 5 | Golden | 20,417 | 16,808 | 82.3% |
| 6 | Berthoud | 12,411 | 10,209 | 82.3% |
| 7 | Salida | 5,861 | 4,796 | 81.8% |
| 8 | Windsor | 37,914 | 30,627 | 80.8% |
| 9 | Aspen | 6,756 | 5,337 | 79.0% |
| 10 | Louisville | 20,786 | 16,337 | 78.6% |
| 11 | Loveland | 78,410 | 61,619 | 78.6% |
| 12 | Durango | 19,411 | 15,216 | 78.4% |
| 13 | Boulder | 106,433 | 83,051 | 78.0% |
| 14 | Castle Rock | 79,123 | 61,562 | 77.8% |
| 15 | Greenwood Village | 15,420 | 11,963 | 77.6% |
| 16 | Steamboat Springs | 13,433 | 10,416 | 77.5% |
| 17 | Littleton | 44,710 | 34,624 | 77.4% |
| 18 | Fort Collins | 170,229 | 131,655 | 77.3% |
| 19 | Erie | 33,808 | 26,091 | 77.2% |
| 20 | Gunnison | 6,766 | 5,212 | 77.0% |
| 21 | Arvada | 122,634 | 93,190 | 76.0% |
| 22 | Grand Junction | 68,142 | 51,776 | 76.0% |
| 23 | Craig | 8,991 | 6,766 | 75.3% |
| 24 | Lone Tree | 14,147 | 10,533 | 74.5% |
| 25 | Montrose | 21,044 | 15,649 | 74.4% |
| 26 | Centennial | 108,201 | 80,125 | 74.1% |
| 27 | John | 18,883 | 13,845 | 73.3% |
| 28 | Wheat Ridge | 32,070 | 23,341 | 72.8% |
| 29 | Carbondale | 6,637 | 4,815 | 72.5% |
| 30 | Broomfield | 76,304 | 55,235 | 72.4% |
| 31 | Wellington | 11,798 | 8,526 | 72.3% |
| 32 | Parker | 61,783 | 44,261 | 71.6% |
| 33 | Frederick | 16,651 | 11,754 | 70.6% |
| 34 | Sterling | 13,172 | 9,252 | 70.2% |
| 35 | Milliken | 8,871 | 6,205 | 69.9% |
| 36 | Delta | 9,421 | 6,589 | 69.9% |
| 37 | Lafayette | 30,602 | 21,277 | 69.5% |
| 38 | Superior | 13,305 | 9,156 | 68.8% |
| 39 | Lakewood | 156,583 | 106,779 | 68.2% |
| 40 | Englewood | 34,129 | 23,161 | 67.9% |
| 41 | Eagle | 7,442 | 4,990 | 67.1% |
| 42 | Longmont | 99,406 | 66,278 | 66.7% |
| 43 | Colorado Springs | 487,887 | 317,955 | 65.2% |
| 44 | Westminster | 115,484 | 73,781 | 63.9% |
| 45 | Firestone | 18,049 | 11,417 | 63.3% |
| 46 | Cortez | 8,976 | 5,576 | 62.1% |
| 47 | Brush | 5,306 | 3,227 | 60.8% |
| 48 | Fountain | 29,300 | 16,768 | 57.2% |
| 49 | Glenwood Springs | 10,241 | 5,717 | 55.8% |
| 50 | Denver | 718,877 | 388,268 | 54.0% |
| 51 | Avon | 5,972 | 3,165 | 53.0% |
| 52 | La Junta | 7,140 | 3,753 | 52.6% |
| 53 | Brighton | 42,059 | 21,611 | 51.4% |
| 54 | Greeley | 110,806 | 56,872 | 51.3% |
| 55 | Lamar | 7,611 | 3,849 | 50.6% |
| 56 | Thornton | 144,187 | 72,383 | 50.2% |
| 57 | Trinidad | 8,286 | 4,051 | 48.9% |
| 58 | Northglenn | 38,014 | 18,467 | 48.6% |
| 59 | Sheridan | 6,005 | 2,910 | 48.5% |
| 60 | Rifle | 10,570 | 4,966 | 47.0% |
| 61 | Evans | 22,396 | 10,456 | 46.7% |
| 62 | Gypsum | 8,941 | 3,928 | 43.9% |
| 63 | Pueblo | 111,561 | 48,957 | 43.9% |
| 64 | Aurora | 394,432 | 161,514 | 40.9% |
| 65 | Commerce City | 66,445 | 27,039 | 40.7% |
| 66 | Alamosa | 9,879 | 3,803 | 38.5% |
| 67 | Fort Morgan | 11,605 | 4,388 | 37.8% |
| 68 | Fort Lupton | 8,897 | 3,147 | 35.4% |
| 69 | Federal Heights | 14,125 | 3,977 | 28.2% |
Source: U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024. 69 cities with more than 5,000 residents.
Summary
Summary: White Populations Across Colorado
We measured the locations with the highest percentage of white people in Colorado. According to the most recent data, this list provides accurate information on the whitest places in Colorado.
The most White cities in Colorado are Estes Park, Cherry Hills Village, Fruita, Woodland Park, Golden, Berthoud, Salida, Windsor, Aspen, and Louisville.
