Poncha Springs, CO
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Poncha Springs, CO: 1 USPS ZIP, population 606. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet PONCHA-SPRINGS-CO · Poncha Springs, CO 1 ZIPs · 606 pop · #5174/25278 · Chaffee County
INC-HIGH · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-HIGH
- INC-HIGH $95,865
- RANK-UPPER #5174/25278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Nathrop
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-HIGH 88% owners
- POP-VILLAGE 606
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-HIGH $482,500
Nearest income peer: Nathrop, CO (+ $2,305 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 Poncha Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Poncha Springs on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Salida · lowest
Salida · lowest
$80,248 median HH income
- Buena Vista · near
Buena Vista · near
$88,083 median HH income
- Poncha Springs · this city
Poncha Springs · this city
$95,865 median HH income
- Nathrop · highest
Nathrop · highest
$98,170 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, Poncha Springs, CO sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- Top 20%
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 606
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $95,865
- 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 $95,865 and home value $482,500 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 34.4%.
Owner-occupancy here runs high (88.4%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.
Within Colorado, Leadville is the closest lower-income city and Grand Lake the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Poncha Springs.
ZIP Codes in Poncha Springs, CO
These ZIP codes sit in Chaffee County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Poncha Springs. See the Chaffee County roll-up →
No other city sharing Chaffee County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Poncha Springs. Salida and Buena Vista sit below it, so a household comparing this county on income alone starts here. Salida marks the far end of that range at $80,248, 16% below Poncha Springs.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 81242 | 606 | 106 | America/Denver |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Poncha Springs, 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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