81632Edwards, Colorado

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 81632.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 46% of 6,210 published ZIP areas57
Housing affordability6428th of 6,685 published ZIP areas36
Climate6697th of 6,789 published ZIP areas51
Physical resilience5971st of 6,709 published ZIP areas17
AccessTop 37% of 6,791 published ZIP areas96
Economic stability4593rd of 6,742 published ZIP areas49
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 10.8 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 26% of it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, avalanche and volcanic activity.

A major airport is 16 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
10,965
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$83,712
Top 33% nationally
Density
95/sq mi
115.9 sq mi of land
Median age
40.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Edwards
Colorado
Metro area
Edwards, CO
Nearest major airport
EGE
16 mi · Eagle County Rgnl
Median home value
$904,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.6% is lower than 83% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 3.8% over the past year, to 32,049 employed residents.

59% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 93% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$17,642$83,712Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$13,201$64,070Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.3%Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute18.3 minBottom 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher59.4%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment32,049Bottom 33%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.5%Bottom 26%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.8%Bottom 5%June 2026
Labor force33,232Bottom 33%June 2026
Labor force participation68.3%Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.1%Top 47%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.6%Bottom 17%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202492k80k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $83,712 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.

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

There are 12.2 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Eagle County Charter Academy · charterEagle County School District No. Re 5036015.7
Stone Creek School · charterState Charter School Institute29712.9
Edwards Elementary SchoolEagle County School District No. Re 5026910.3
Berry Creek Middle SchoolEagle County School District No. Re 5021210.1
Edwards Early Learning CenterEagle County School District No. Re 508011.4

41.1% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Colorado’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,845 takes 26% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 10.8 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
26.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
10.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,845
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$904,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income10.80Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate64.3%Bottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4145,833Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$75$1,845Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$204,855$904,400Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income26.4%Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate26.5%Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 82°F and January a low of 9°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 14.9 inches.

0°20°40°60°80°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ASPEN PITKIN CO AP, 30.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND1.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation14.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low9°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months41991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

17 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, avalanche and volcanic activity.

AvalancheModerate
Inland floodingHigh
Volcanic activityModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, lightning, wildfire, winter weather, earthquake, hail, ice storm, drought, tornado, strong wind, cold wave.

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 offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Eagle County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 15.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.7 per 100,000 residents in Eagle County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
11.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Eagle County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 81632 rather than 81632 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 16 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Eagle County RgnlEGE16 mi9,000 ft
Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy FldASE31 mi8,006 ft
Central Colorado RgnlAEJ62 mi8,303 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 periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 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 browse every source.

81632 vs Edwards

How this ZIP area compares with Edwards as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

81632
Edwards
Median household income
$83,712
vs
$81,909
Per capita income
$64,070
vs
$63,512
Population density
95/sq mi
vs
405/sq mi
Median home value
$904,400
vs
$937,300
Median gross rent
$1,845
vs
$1,845
Homeownership rate
64.3%
vs
63.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
59.4%
vs
59.8%
Poverty rate
12.3%
vs
12.5%
Median age
40.2
vs
39.8

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.