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Colorado City city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Colorado City city is a Census city of 3,976 people across 5.33 square miles of land, in Mitchell County. Median household income is $53,448, 74.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.7 m.
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Colorado City
What Colorado City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area5.33 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land746
- County holding the largest share of its areaMitchell County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Colorado City
How many people live in Colorado City
- Population3,976
- Median age34.8 plus or minus 7.7
- Population under 181,009 plus or minus 300
- Share under 1825.4 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Population 65 and over708 plus or minus 168
- Share 65 and over17.8 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Households1,240
- Family households797
- Share of households that are families64.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Colorado City
Income and work in Colorado City
- Median household income$53,448 plus or minus $10,924
- Per capita income$26,113
- Civilian labor force2,005
- Employed1,818
- Unemployed187 plus or minus 120
- Unemployment rate9.3 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Adults 25 and over2,432
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher78.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher12.6 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.8 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Colorado City
Housing in Colorado City
- Housing units1,579
- Occupied units1,240
- Vacant units339 plus or minus 177
- Vacancy rate21.5 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Owner occupied924
- Renter occupied316 plus or minus 119
- Ownership rate74.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$69,500 plus or minus $17,339
- Single family units1,384
- Share single family87.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more127 plus or minus 96
- Share in buildings of two or more8.0 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Mobile homes68 plus or minus 66
- Median year structure built1955
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Colorado City
How Colorado City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,741
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,020 plus or minus 322
- Share commuting under 15 minutes58.6 percent plus or minus 17.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more501 plus or minus 193
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more28.8 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Drove alone83.6 percent
- Carpooled13.6 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home2.4 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Colorado City
SBA loans in Colorado City (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$1,655,000
- Average approval$413,750
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$945,000
- Largest approval$945,000
- Jobs supported37
- Jobs per approval9.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more25.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Colorado City
SBA loans in Colorado City (504)
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,489,000
- Average approval$1,489,000
- Median approval$1,489,000
- Largest approval$1,489,000
- Jobs supported10
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Colorado City
Flood risk in Colorado City
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480480
- Currently effective map date04/01/87(L)
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Mitchell County, not Colorado City
Mitchell County context, not Colorado City figures
These are Mitchell County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Colorado City measurements.
- Establishments in Mitchell County128
- Employment at those establishments, Mitchell County1,068
- Covered employment, Mitchell County2,020
- Average annual pay, Mitchell County$58,026
- Average weekly wage, Mitchell County$1,116
- Housing units permitted, Mitchell County4
- Of those, single family, Mitchell County4
- County product, 2024, Mitchell County$467,583,000
- County product change over the prior year, Mitchell County10.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Mitchell County$37,252
Every figure in this section is published for Mitchell County as a whole and is not a measurement of Colorado City. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Colorado City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Colorado City, Texas?
3,976, in 1,240 households. Colorado City city covers 5.33 square miles of land, which is 746 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Colorado City in?
Mitchell County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Colorado City?
$53,448. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $69,500. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Colorado City businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $1.7 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $1.5 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Colorado City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Colorado City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Colorado City. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Colorado City in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Colorado City appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480480, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Colorado City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Mitchell County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Colorado City.
Is zoning published for Colorado City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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