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Colorado City, TX

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Colorado City, TX: 1 USPS ZIP, population 8,197. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

Source:

ACS city ledger plate

Sheet COLORADO-CITY-TX · Colorado City, TX 1 ZIPs · 8,197 pop · #17725/25278 · Mitchell County

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

  • INC-MID $60,353
  • RANK-LOWER #17725/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Loraine
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 79% owners
  • POP-TOWN 8,197
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $88,800

Nearest income peer: Loraine, TX ( $10,710 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 Colorado City

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Colorado City 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, Colorado City, TX sits among US cities with a below-median household income, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

30th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
8,197
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$60,353
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.

Below-median income with few delivery areas (1): read cost-of-living from the primary ZIP. Household income $60,353 and poverty 12.4% concentrate in 79512.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (78.6%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Colorado City as a pure owner town.

Within Texas, Lolita is the closest lower-income city and Oglesby the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Colorado City.

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ZIP Codes in Colorado City, TX

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

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
79512 8,197 6 America/Chicago

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Colorado City, 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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