Englewood, Colorado

Area Profile

34,129 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Englewood, in Arapahoe County.

57out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 43% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
OpportunityTop 44% of 4,199 cities measured59
Schools2,593rd of 4,162 cities measured41
GrowthTop 33% of 4,224 cities measured58
Housing affordability3,191st of 4,218 cities measured53
Climate3,210th of 4,225 cities measured62
Physical resilience2,499th of 4,226 cities measured49
AccessTop 2% of 4,226 cities measured100
Economic stabilityTop 23% of 4,226 cities measured70
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.9% and median household income $86,800, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured.

In the public schools here, 31% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 13.7 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 32% of renter income here, above the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.5 times what its owners earn.

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At a glance

Population
34,129
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$86,800
Top 27% nationally
Density
5,202/sq mi
6.6 sq mi of land
Median age
37.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Colorado
Nearest major airport
APA
9 mi · Centennial
Median home value
$572,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.9%, lower than in 65% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.9% over the past year, to 21,604 employed residents.

49% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 88% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsArapahoe County, CO’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$75,79255th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftArapahoe County, CO’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$86,50272nd percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$5,3382024 ACS 5-Year$86,800Top 27%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,2372024 ACS 5-Year$56,987Top 12%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year7.4%Top 35%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.0 min2024 ACS 5-Year24.7 minTop 39%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year49.3%Top 12%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year63.2%16th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202621,604Bottom 25%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026−0.6%Bottom 45%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026−1.9%Bottom 23%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202622,47825th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year87.5%Top 16%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$81,690Top 18%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$62,320Top 11%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year3.0%93rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026−0.1%Bottom 49%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20263.9%Top 35%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year22.7%89th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/076.12.7
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.9% in July 2026. It has been rising for the last 2 months, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202487k72k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $86,800 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.

31% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 44% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.7 students for every full-time teacher across 9 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.7
across 9 of them
Math proficiency
31.1%
Bottom 36% in Colorado
Reading proficiency
43.5%
Bottom 26% in Colorado
All 10 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Cherry Hills Village Elementary SchoolCherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah49115.870%80%
Clayton Elementary SchoolEnglewood School District No. 1 in the county of Arapahoe40213.927%46%
Sheridan High SchoolSheridan School District No. 232114.017%27%
Englewood Early Childhood Education Center at MaddoxEnglewood School District No. 1 in the county of Arapahoe258129.0——
Colorado's Finest High School of ChoiceEnglewood School District No. 1 in the county of Arapahoe21612.017%47%
Englewood Middle SchoolEnglewood School District No. 1 in the county of Arapahoe21011.15%13%
Wm E Bishop Elementary SchoolEnglewood School District No. 1 in the county of Arapahoe20011.817%17%
Alice Terry Elementary SchoolSheridan School District No. 216715.2——
Early Childhood Education CenterSheridan School District No. 211412.7——
SOAR AcademySheridan School District No. 27819.510%10%

58.7% 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 $2,314 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.40% 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, some 25% above the $1,668 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 96% of the median household income here of $86,800.

The typical renter household here spends 32% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,668 a month.

A median home at $572,900 costs 4.5 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $127,429, 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
31.5%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.5×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,089
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,668
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$572,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Englewood’s median household income of $86,800, 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 33%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2−0.5%4th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+21.4%7th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+79.9%27th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year4.5Bottom 12%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year49.2%9th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5572024 ACS 5-Year17,79897th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,754Bottom 31%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,734Bottom 28%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,089Bottom 29%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$592024 ACS 5-Year$1,668Bottom 15%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$12,7662024 ACS 5-Year$572,90091st percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$712024 ACS 5-Year$2,31462nd percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$9,1692024 ACS 5-Year$127,429Top 12%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.02%2024 ACS 5-Year0.40%5th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year31.5%Bottom 34%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1032024 ACS 5-Year9489th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.5%57th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year5.1%39th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2792024 ACS 5-Year99395th percentileof 32,3302024 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

58/ 100
Top 33% of 4,224 published city profiles
The most recent move in permitting was upward, in a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

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.

Population has grown 5% since 2020, reaching 35,238 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before: 84 units authorized in 2025, against 10 the year before.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 35,238 residents in 2024, up 2.2% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

Federal tax returns show Arapahoe County, which contains Englewood, lost about 0.8% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $75,792, below the $86,502 of households that moved out.

At 2.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
89
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.6
Top 50% nationally
Year over year
+709%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
47.2%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202435k34k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
−0.8%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
37%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$75,792
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$86,502
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Denver County, CO 13,955 people · 29% of arrivals
  2. Adams County, CO 4,662 people · 9.7% of arrivals
  3. Douglas County, CO 4,313 people · 9.0% of arrivals
  4. Jefferson County, CO 3,448 people · 7.2% of arrivals
  5. El Paso County, CO 1,009 people · 2.1% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Denver County, CO 11,897 people · 23% of departures
  2. Douglas County, CO 6,819 people · 13% of departures
  3. Adams County, CO 5,540 people · 11% of departures
  4. Jefferson County, CO 3,640 people · 7.0% of departures
  5. El Paso County, CO 1,273 people · 2.4% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Arapahoe County, CO. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

20202021202220232024202554510
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−72%).

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.

Air quality measures a median index of 49, in the Good band, and about 17 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

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, 9.4 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND2.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year872024 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 year172024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year492024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals42°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
49
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
87
90th percentile index
Days above 100
17
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

49 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hail, inland flooding and tornado, with hail alone responsible for 37% 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
TornadoHigh

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

Violent crime
653
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
4,277
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Englewood's police department reported 653 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, higher than most places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 4,277.

Arapahoe County records 4.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 26.4 per 100,000 residents in Arapahoe County.

Homicide
4.0
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.5
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
26.4
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
17.1
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.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Englewood’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. 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 Englewood (Arapahoe County) rather than Englewood itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and 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.

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

9 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Centennial at 9 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year91.4%Top 42%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle9 miTop 24%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle9Top 5%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year4.9%Top 36%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
CentennialAPA9 mi10,001 ft
Rocky Mountain MetroBJC19 mi9,000 ft
Denver IntlDEN23 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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Other cities in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
DenverDenver County718,87756Denver vs Englewood
AuroraArapahoe County394,43252Aurora vs Englewood
LakewoodJefferson County156,58346Lakewood vs Englewood
ThorntonAdams County144,18754
ArvadaJefferson County122,63453
WestminsterAdams County115,48457
CentennialArapahoe County108,20162
Highlands RanchDouglas County102,25765
Castle RockDouglas County79,12359
BroomfieldBroomfield County76,30466
Commerce CityAdams County66,44558
ParkerDouglas County61,78365

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
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 October 8, 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.

ZIP codes in Englewood

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Englewood with census figures of its own, largest first.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
8011023,825$85,900$497,30058