Town · Arapahoe County, Colorado

Deer Trail, Colorado

Deer Trail is a town in Arapahoe County, Colorado, part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area. It has 1,275 residents. Deer Trail, Colorado has a quality-of-life score of 56 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,929 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Colorado it ranks #139 of 220 cities and towns. It ranks best on dentists (high), new business applications (high) and unemployment rate (low). It ranks worst on high ozone days (high), property crime rate (high) and violent crime rate (high).

56Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,929 of 15,651 cities and towns
Colorado: #139 of 220 in CO
Population: 1,275 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,002.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 0819630

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety22#12,219/15,637
Economy74#3,991/15,631
Housing18#12,286/14,977
Health61#6,093/15,609
Healthcare88#1,825/15,650
Environment40#9,315/15,453
Education48#8,135/15,649
Infrastructure46#8,442/15,650
Community82#2,819/15,651
Leisure & amenities55#7,020/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Deer Trail, Colorado ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Arapahoe County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Dentists · high120 /100k
97/100Colorado 88 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteArapahoe County value
New business applications · high25.5 /1k
96/100Colorado 23.9 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauArapahoe County value
Unemployment rate · low0.6%
94/100Colorado 4.0%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Average weekly wage · high$1,708
93/100Colorado $1,618United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsArapahoe County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.42%
93/100Colorado 0.50%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Preventable hospital stays · low1,768 /100k
92/100Colorado 1,686 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteArapahoe County value

Weaknesses

High ozone days · high15 days
4/100Colorado 10 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyArapahoe County value
Property crime rate · high2,313 /100k
7/100Colorado 2,144 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationArapahoe County value
Violent crime rate · high533 /100k
9/100Colorado 422 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationArapahoe County value
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100Colorado 5.6 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Drug overdose deaths · high26.4 /100k
15/100Colorado 28.0 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataArapahoe County value
Pharmacies · low1.0 /10k
16/100Colorado 0.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsArapahoe County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
519 (2015-2019) → 1,275 (2020-2024)
+146%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
8.9% (2015-2019) → 77.1% (2020-2024)
+68 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
125.2 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
19.1% (2015-2019) → 34.3% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.0× (2015-2019) → 5.0× (2020-2024)
+67%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
21.1% (2015-2019) → 33.4% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Deer Trail, Colorado improved on 0 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Deer Trail, Colorado between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	34.7 min2015-2019	41.4 min2020-2024	+6.7 min	Within the margin of error	6%
Broadband subscriptions	75.5%2015-2019	87.2%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	68%
High school diploma or higher	95.5%2015-2019	84.3%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	5.0×2020-2024	+2.0×	Within the margin of error	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3322015-2019	0.4232020-2024	+0.091	Within the margin of error	6%
Median household income	$50,4692015-2019	$73,9062020-2024	+46%	Within the margin of error	81%
Poverty rate	20.7%2015-2019	18.8%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	19.1%2015-2019	34.3%2020-2024	+15 points	Within the margin of error	4%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Deer Trail, Colorado five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Deer Trail, Colorado in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Deer Trail, Colorado five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Deer Trail, Colorado itself moved −29.2 points in standing on average over the same 7 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,275 residents (±352)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 50–59 women (−7.8 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,275 residents (±352)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

White66%†845
Black5.9%†75
Hispanic or Latino26%†334

Education

790 residents (±171)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

No high school diploma16%†124
High school or GED48%377
Some college11%†86

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

454 households (±110)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

Under $25k13%†59
$25k–50k19%†85
$50k–75k20%†90
$75k–100k10%†46
$100k–150k14%†62
$150k–200k19%†85
$200k or more5.9%†27

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $150k–200k (+17.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

454 households (±110)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

Own86%392
Rent14%†62

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+17.8 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

44 households (±32)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

Under $75048%†21
$750–1,0000.0%0
$1,000–1,50027%†12

Home values

392 homes (±97)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

Under $150k4.8%†19
$150k–250k6.9%†27
$250k–400k51%†201

Age of homes

472 homes (±113)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

2010 or later55%†258
2000–20095.7%†27
1980–199910%†48

Size of homes

472 homes (±113)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

Studio0.8%†4
1 bedroom5.1%†24
2 bedrooms26%†125

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

632 workers (±187)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

Drive alone72%†453
Carpool13%†79
Public transit0.0%0
Walk1.3%†8
Bike0.0%0
Work from home13%†79
Other2.1%†13

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+9.3 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

553 workers (±178)

Deer Trail, Colorado
Colorado share

Under 15 min12%†66
15–29 min12%†64
30–44 min9.8%†54

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Arapahoe County, the county holding most of Deer Trail's residents.

Arapahoe County has 20,137 employer establishments, 302 for every 10,000 residents (1.22× the US rate of 248; 0.98× Colorado's), with 321,810 paid employees at an average annual pay of $76,250. The Census Bureau also counts 76,340 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 20,137; 76,340 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 302; US 248 · Colorado 309
Paid employees: 321,810
Average annual pay: $76,250; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Arapahoe County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	2,061	31	1.49×More than typical	30,269	$75,897	3,827
Lessors of real estate	1,443	21.7	1.76×More than typical	6,593	$72,682	7,069
Specialty trade contractors	1,368	20.5	1.33×More than typical	15,677	$76,358	5,081
Restaurants and other eating places	1,278	19.2	1.05×About typical	25,598	$27,889	327
Real estate agents and brokers	746	11.2	2.30×More than typical	1,068	$83,480	1,853
Management, scientific and technical consulting	711	10.7	1.59×More than typical	4,811	$103,072	3,060
Offices of other health practitioners	683	10.3	1.69×More than typical	4,250	$56,039	1,816
Limited-service restaurants	563	8.5	1.05×About typical	11,171	$24,471	157
Insurance agencies and brokerages	541	8.1	1.85×More than typical	5,014	$108,205	989
Computer systems design and related services	532	8	1.85×More than typical	7,516	$121,158	888
Construction of buildings	531	8	1.05×About typical	6,136	$108,175	2,120
Full-service restaurants	514	7.7	1.01×About typical	11,856	$32,336	111

Rank places for an industry Open Arapahoe County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 665,778 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Deer Trail is mostly in Arapahoe County.

See federal money in Arapahoe County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Deer Trail, Colorado is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).