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Coal Creek, CO

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Coal Creek, CO: 1 USPS ZIP, population 310. 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 COAL-CREEK-CO · Coal Creek, CO 1 ZIPs · 310 pop · #24578/25278 · Fremont County

INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-LOW $34,000
  • RANK-BOTTOM #24578/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Rockvale
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 89% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 310
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $199,000

Nearest income peer: Rockvale, CO (+ $17,250 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 Coal Creek

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

median HH income

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Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

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

3rd pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
310
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$34,000
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 ($34,000 average) · poverty 24.4%. The primary code (81221) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (88.8%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Colorado, San Luis is the closest lower-income city and Blanca the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Coal Creek.

Population concentration

Coal Creek's single ZIP 81221 carries the town

Coal Creek is published as a single USPS ZIP. Code 81221 is the entire residential footprint (310 ACS residents), so the city page and the ZIP page tell the same household story, open that ZIP for income, tenure, and commute detail.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Coal Creek's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Coal Creek. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Coal Creek, CO

These ZIP codes sit in Fremont County, which covers 9 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Coal Creek. See the Fremont County roll-up →

Every one of the 6 cities sharing Fremont County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Coal Creek, Canon City, Florence and Penrose among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Penrose marks the far end of that range at $90,417, 166% above Coal Creek.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
81221 310 $34,000 n/a 80
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