Amherst, CO

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Amherst, CO: 1 USPS ZIP, population 154. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet AMHERST-CO · Amherst, CO 1 ZIPs · 154 pop · #3815/25278 · Phillips County

INC-HIGH · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-HIGH $104,167
  • RANK-TOP #3815/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Paoli
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 74% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 154
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $326,100

Nearest income peer: Paoli, CO ( $4,723 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 Amherst

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Amherst 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, Amherst, CO sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 15%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
154
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$104,167
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.

High-income footprint on only 1 ZIP: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $104,167 and home value $326,100 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 11.2%.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (74.3%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Amherst as a pure owner town.

Within Colorado, Snowmass Village is the closest lower-income city and Rico the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Amherst.

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ZIP Codes in Amherst, CO

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

No other city sharing Phillips County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Amherst. Holyoke and Paoli sit below it, so a household comparing this county on income alone starts here. Holyoke marks the far end of that range at $57,891, 44% below Amherst.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
80721 154 1 America/Denver

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

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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