80123 — Columbine, Colorado

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 80123. Its median household income runs 19% below Columbine as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

52out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 28% of 3,116 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
OpportunityTop 42% of 3,119 ZIP areas measured57
SchoolsTop 36% of 3,047 ZIP areas measured61
Growth2,724th of 3,124 ZIP areas measured28
Housing affordability2,848th of 3,115 ZIP areas measured40
Climate2,390th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured62
Physical resilience2,212th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured38
AccessTop 16% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured99
Economic stabilityTop 5% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured82
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.9% and median household income $105,932, putting employment conditions in the middle range of ZIP areas measured. The unemployment rate is published for Columbine, CO, which contains 80123, rather than for 80123 alone.

In the public schools here, 46% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 17.7 students for every teacher.

Residential permitting has slowed: 988 units authorized over the past twelve months, 18% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Columbine, CO, which contains 80123, rather than for 80123 alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
44,549
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$105,932
Top 15% nationally
Density
3,705/sq mi
12 sq mi of land
Median age
41.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Columbine
Colorado
Nearest major airport
APA
12 mi · Centennial
Median home value
$620,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Columbine, CO, which contains 80123, is 3.9%, lower than in 67% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Columbine, CO, which contains 80123, fell 1.9% over the past year, to 319,833 employed residents.

54% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 90% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$3,6632024 ACS 5-Year$105,932Top 15%of 31,1382024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,6372024 ACS 5-Year$63,179Top 9%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±0.8%2024 ACS 5-Year4.1%Top 15%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.0 min2024 ACS 5-Year28.5 minBottom 46%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year53.7%Top 10%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year65.3%20th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentColumbine, CO’s figureJuly 2026319,833Top 14%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Columbine, CO’s figureJuly 2026−2.7%Bottom 17%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Columbine, CO’s figureJuly 2026−1.9%Bottom 21%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceColumbine, CO’s figureJuly 2026332,73086th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year85.1%Top 20%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$81,690Top 11%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$62,320Top 8%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.5%2024 ACS 5-Year1.0%80th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Columbine, CO’s figureJuly 2026+0.1%Bottom 39%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateColumbine, CO’s figureJuly 20263.9%Top 33%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year23.6%89th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024107k97k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $105,932 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

Largest occupations — Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers42,810$37,070
Retail Salespersons40,340$38,470
Stockers and Order Fillers32,610$44,480
Registered Nurses30,380$101,130
Business Operations Specialists, All Other28,670$94,990
Software Developers27,010$137,610

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Columbine, CO, the city containing this ZIP code.

46% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 60% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.7 students for every full-time teacher across 11 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
45.6%
Top 32% in Colorado
Reading proficiency
59.7%
Top 30% in Colorado
All 11 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Columbine High SchoolJefferson County School District No. R-11,71020.950%68%
Ken Caryl Middle SchoolJefferson County School District No. R-172518.643%54%
Wilder Elementary SchoolLittleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe59219.167%73%
Goddard Middle SchoolLittleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe57516.450%57%
Deer Creek Middle SchoolJefferson County School District No. R-154120.053%66%
Governor's Ranch Elementary SchoolJefferson County School District No. R-145816.445%59%
Montessori Peaks Charter Academy · charterJefferson County School District No. R-144415.927%52%
Centennial Academy of Fine Arts EducationLittleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe33413.433%47%
Grant Ranch ECE-8 SchoolSchool District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C33415.213%32%
Blue Heron Elementary SchoolJefferson County School District No. R-132513.541%55%
Leawood Elementary SchoolJefferson County School District No. R-132116.947%57%

28.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Colorado’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 6% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 105.8, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area is up 21% over five years, but down 0.5% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $3,200 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.52% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,089, close to the $2,077 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,089 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $83,600 a year, about 79% of the median household income here of $105,932.

The typical renter household here spends 36% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $2,077 a month.

A median home at $620,100 costs 5.0 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $125,064, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
105.8

Prices here run about 6% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
35.8%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.0×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,089
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$2,077
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$620,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 80123’s median household income of $105,932, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2023105.8Bottom 24%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2−0.5%4th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+21.4%5th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+79.9%24th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year5.0Bottom 9%of 29,3222024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year72.8%35th percentileof 32,9062024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5752024 ACS 5-Year19,95397th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,754Bottom 24%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,734Bottom 22%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,089Bottom 23%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$552024 ACS 5-Year$2,077Bottom 7%of 26,4752024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,8962024 ACS 5-Year$620,10092nd percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1072024 ACS 5-Year$3,20072nd percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$6,2872024 ACS 5-Year$125,064Top 14%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.02%2024 ACS 5-Year0.52%14th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year35.8%Bottom 16%of 26,3322024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1122024 ACS 5-Year8873rd percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.4%40th percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year3.0%20th percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2502024 ACS 5-Year68380th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

28/ 100
Ranks 2,724 of 3,124 published ZIP profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 988 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 16% are in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Columbine, CO, which contains 80123, rather than for 80123 alone.

At 1.7 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Columbine, CO, which contains 80123, rather than for 80123 alone.

Units permitted
988
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.7
Bottom 33% nationally
Year over year
−18%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
16.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Columbine, CO, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 87°F and January a low of 19°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 15.0 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station DENVER CENTENNIAL AP, 12.2 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND2.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year1012024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals15.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals19°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year372024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year502024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals42°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
50
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
101
90th percentile index
Days above 100
37
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

38 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hail and wildfire, with inland flooding alone responsible for 33% of it. inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

HailHigh
TornadoElevated
WildfireModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, winter weather, strong wind, inland flooding, earthquake, cold wave, landslide, volcanic activity, heat wave, ice storm, avalanche, drought, tsunami, hurricane, coastal flooding.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.7
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
22.7
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
20.1
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around 80123 (Jefferson County) rather than 80123 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Columbine carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

11 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Centennial at 12 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year96.4%Top 13%of 32,8192024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle12 miTop 34%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle11Top 1%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±0.6%2024 ACS 5-Year2.2%Top 15%of 32,8192024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
CentennialAPA12 mi10,001 ft
Rocky Mountain MetroBJC20 mi9,000 ft
Denver IntlDEN27 mi16,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated September 26, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

80123 vs Columbine

How this ZIP area compares with Columbine as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

80123
Columbine
Median household income: Columbine is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$105,932
vs
$131,232
Per capita income: 80123 is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$63,179
vs
$59,385
Population density
3,705/sq mi
vs
3,841/sq mi
Median home value
$620,100
vs
$617,200
Median gross rent: 80123 is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$2,077
vs
$2,448
Homeownership rate
72.8%
vs
89.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 80123 is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
53.7%
vs
53.2%
Poverty rate: 80123 is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
4.1%
vs
4.5%
Median age
41.8
vs
40.6

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.