Model, CO

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Model, CO: 1 USPS ZIP, population 651. 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 MODEL-CO · Model, CO 1 ZIPs · 651 pop · #5688/25278 · Las Animas County

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

  • INC-HIGH $93,068
  • RANK-UPPER #5688/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Trinidad
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 72% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 651
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-UNK Homes pending

Nearest income peer: Trinidad, CO ( $34,479 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 Model

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

Top 23%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
651
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$93,068
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 $93,068 and home value - should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 20.8%.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (71.8%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Model as a pure owner town.

Within Colorado, Ault is the closest lower-income city and Red Feather Lakes the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Model.

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ZIP Codes in Model, CO

These ZIP codes sit in Las Animas County, which covers 8 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Model. See the Las Animas County roll-up →

No other city sharing Las Animas County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Model. Trinidad, Aguilar and Weston sit below it, so a household comparing this county on income alone starts here. Aguilar marks the far end of that range at $30,685, 67% below Model.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
81059 651 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 Model, 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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