Gardner, CO
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Gardner, CO: 1 USPS ZIP, population 536. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet GARDNER-CO · Gardner, CO 1 ZIPs · 536 pop · #24780/25278 · Huerfano County
INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-UNK
- INC-LOW $30,978
- RANK-BOTTOM #24780/25278
- BELOW-PEER under Walsenburg
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-HIGH 94% owners
- POP-VILLAGE 536
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-UNK Homes pending
Nearest income peer: Walsenburg, CO (+ $21,302 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 Gardner
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Gardner on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Gardner · this city · lowest
Gardner · this city · lowest
$30,978 median HH income
- Walsenburg · near
Walsenburg · near
$52,280 median HH income
- La Veta · highest
La Veta · highest
$55,080 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.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Gardner, 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.
- 2nd pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 536
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $30,978
- 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 ($30,978 average) · poverty 18.9%. The primary code (81040) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy here runs high (94.4%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.
Within Colorado, Moffat is the closest lower-income city and Boncarbo the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Gardner.
ZIP Codes in Gardner, CO
These ZIP codes sit in Huerfano County, which covers 3 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Gardner. See the Huerfano County roll-up →
Every one of the 2 cities sharing Huerfano County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Gardner, Walsenburg and La Veta among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. La Veta marks the far end of that range at $55,080, 78% above Gardner.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 81040 | 536 | 0 | America/Denver |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Gardner, 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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