Fort Collins is a relatively large city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 169,249 people and 47 associated neighborhoods, Fort Collins is the fourth largest community in Colorado. Housing costs in Fort Collins are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.Fort Collins is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.92% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fort Collins is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Collins who work in management occupations (11.62%), sales jobs (9.70%), and office and administrative support (9.47%). Also of interest is that Fort Collins has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.69% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Fort Collins really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Fort Collins is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Fort Collins more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Fort Collins’s character and quality of life. Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Fort Collins. 58.33% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%. The per capita income in Fort Collins in 2022 was $43,495, which is upper middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $173,980 for a family of four. However, Fort Collins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Collins is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fort Collins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Collins residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Fort Collins also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.37% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Collins include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European. The most common language spoken in Fort Collins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
