Steamboat Springs, CO

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Steamboat Springs, CO: 3 USPS ZIPs, population 17,057. 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 STEAMBOAT-SPRINGS-CO · Steamboat Springs, CO 3 ZIPs · 17,057 pop · #3115/25278 · Routt County

INC-HIGH · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FEW · OWN-MID · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-TOP

  • INC-HIGH $109,659
  • RANK-TOP #3115/25278
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hayden
  • BOOK-FEW 3 ZIPs
  • OWN-MID 74% owners
  • POP-TOWN 17,057
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-TOP $1,055,900

Nearest income peer: Hayden, CO (+ $745 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 Steamboat Springs

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Steamboat Springs 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, Steamboat Springs, CO sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a town-scale population base, across a handful of delivery areas.

Top 12%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
17,057
city population (Census)
3
USPS ZIP codes covered
$109,659
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 3 ZIPs: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $109,659 and home value $1,055,900 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 59.5%.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (73.6%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Steamboat Springs as a pure owner town.

Within Colorado, Gypsum is the closest lower-income city and Carbondale the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Steamboat Springs.

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ZIP Codes in Steamboat Springs, CO

These ZIP codes sit in Routt County, which covers 10 ZIP codes in all; 3 of them fall in Steamboat Springs. See the Routt County roll-up →

Steamboat Springs lands mid-pack among the 6 cities sharing Routt County: Clark and Mc Coy earn more and Oak Creek, Yampa and Phippsburg earn less. Mc Coy marks the far end of that range at $192,656, 76% above Steamboat Springs.

Side-by-side: Compare 80487 vs 80488 →

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
80487 16,745 9 America/Denver
80488 157 5,451 America/Denver
80477 155 2,230 America/Denver

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