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Alamosa, CO

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Alamosa, CO: 1 USPS ZIP, population 14,675. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

Source:

ACS city ledger plate

Sheet ALAMOSA-CO · Alamosa, CO 1 ZIPs · 14,675 pop · #20032/25278 · Alamosa County

INC-MID · RANK-LOWER · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-LOW · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-MID $54,844
  • RANK-LOWER #20032/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Hooper
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-LOW 55% owners
  • POP-TOWN 14,675
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $240,400

Nearest income peer: Hooper, CO ( $7,396 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Alamosa

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Alamosa on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Alamosa, CO sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

21st pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
14,675
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$54,844
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($54,844 average) · poverty 18.1%. The primary code (81101) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (54.7%) for this income tier, rent $912 may matter more than the home-value average.

Within Colorado, Creede is the closest lower-income city and Del Norte the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Alamosa.

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ZIP Codes in Alamosa, CO

These ZIP codes sit in Alamosa County, which covers 3 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Alamosa. See the Alamosa County roll-up →

Alamosa lands mid-pack among the 2 cities sharing Alamosa County: Mosca earns more and Hooper earns less. Mosca marks the far end of that range at $69,556, 27% above Alamosa.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
81101 14,675 14 America/Denver

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Alamosa, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →

Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →

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