80913Fort Carson, Colorado

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 80913.

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How this area ranks
Climate5263rd of 6,789 ZIP areas measured62
Physical resilience4483rd of 6,709 ZIP areas measured43
AccessTop 4% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured100
The quick read

A typical July reaches 87°F and a typical January falls to 19°F, on thirty-year normals.

Natural-hazard exposure sits in the middle range of published ZIP profiles, with wildfire and hail the hazards that carry it.

A major airport is 9 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
6,586
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
Density
276/sq mi
23.9 sq mi of land
Median age
21.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Fort Carson
Colorado
Metro area
Colorado Springs, CO
Nearest major airport
COS
9 mi · City of Colorado Springs Muni
Median home value

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 65% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 2.7% over the past year, to 357,638 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Per capita income ±$2,230$33,761Bottom 40%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute9.3 minBottom 1%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher14.1%Bottom 22%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment357,638Top 15%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.3%Bottom 17%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.7%Bottom 12%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force372,983Top 15%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation100.0%Top 1%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$70,780Top 36%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$52,710Top 36%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 47%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 35%of 6,544June 2026
Largest occupations — Colorado Springs, CO
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers11,470$34,420
Stockers and Order Fillers9,110$41,440
Retail Salespersons8,820$36,060
Registered Nurses6,800$96,140
Cashiers5,900$35,740
Home Health and Personal Care Aides5,730$37,530

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 Fort Carson, CO, the city containing this ZIP code.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

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

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 15.9 inches, including 32.5 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 49, in the Good band, and about 14 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 COLORADO SPRINGS MUNI AP, 9.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index80.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation15.9"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall32.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low19°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100142024 calendar year
Median air quality index49.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing41°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
49
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
80
90th percentile index
Days above 100
14
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. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

43 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are wildfire and hail.

WildfireHigh
HailElevated

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

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.

El Paso County records 3.4 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 18.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 19.6 per 100,000 residents in El Paso County.

Homicide
3.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
18.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
19.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
25.0
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 El Paso 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 80913 rather than 80913 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. 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. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 9 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
City of Colorado Springs MuniCOS9 mi13,500 ft
Pueblo MemlPUB31 mi10,498 ft
CentennialAPA61 mi10,001 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
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

80913 vs Fort Carson

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

80913
Fort Carson
Per capita income
$33,761
vs
$27,674
Population density
276/sq mi
vs
644/sq mi
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.1%
vs
25.6%
Median age
21.9
vs
22.3

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.