Census-designated place · Eagle County, Colorado

El Jebel, Colorado

El Jebel is a census-designated place in Eagle County, Colorado, part of the Edwards, CO metro area. It has 2,941 residents. El Jebel, Colorado has a quality-of-life score of 91 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,446 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Colorado it ranks #28 of 220 cities and towns. It ranks best on life expectancy (high), public EV charging ports (high) and preventable hospital stays (low). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), rent as share of income (high) and distance to an emergency room (high).

91Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,446 of 15,651 cities and towns
Colorado: #28 of 220 in CO
Population: 2,941 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 554.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 0823795

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 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.

Safety79#3,206/15,637
Economy87#2,003/15,631
Housing8#13,747/14,977
Health93#1,054/15,609
Healthcare70#4,634/15,650
Environment89#1,728/15,453
Education73#4,212/15,649
Infrastructure71#4,476/15,650
Community93#1,100/15,651
Leisure & amenities99#175/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where El Jebel, Colorado ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Eagle 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

Life expectancy · high89.4 yrs
100/100Colorado 78.7 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEagle County value
Public EV charging ports · high54.2 /10k
100/100Colorado 13.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyEagle County value
Preventable hospital stays · low866 /100k
100/100Colorado 1,686 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEagle County value
Hot days · low0 days
100/100Colorado 23 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationEagle County value
Public transit commuters · high18.0%
99/100Colorado 1.6%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low4.0 µg/m³
99/100Colorado 5.8 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEagle County value

Weaknesses

Drought exposure · high100%
1/100Colorado 70%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAEagle County value
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Colorado 31.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Distance to an emergency room · high16.5 mi
6/100Colorado 5.2 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesEagle County value
Job growth · low-3.2%
6/100Colorado -0.7%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataEagle County value
Home price to income ratio · high8.9×
7/100Colorado 5.7×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Pharmacies · low0.7 /10k
7/100Colorado 0.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsEagle County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
4,725 (2015-2019) → 2,941 (2020-2024)
−38%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
38.1% (2015-2019) → 71.6% (2020-2024)
+33 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
21.6% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
42.6% (2015-2019) → 53.0% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
5.9× (2015-2019) → 8.9× (2020-2024)
+50%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Public transit commutersImproving
8.2% (2015-2019) → 18.0% (2020-2024)
+9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B08301US 5.0% → 3.2%

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, El Jebel, Colorado improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Declined1

Rent / income+29 points21.6% → 51.0%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of El Jebel, Colorado between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	33.0 min2015-2019	31.5 min2020-2024	−1.5 min	Within the margin of error	66%
Bachelor's degree or higher	42.6%2015-2019	53.0%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Broadband subscriptions	95.9%2015-2019	89.1%2020-2024	−6.8 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Effective property tax rate	0.48%2015-2019	0.33%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%
High school diploma or higher	85.0%2015-2019	87.1%2020-2024	+2 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Home price to income ratio	5.9×2015-2019	8.9×2020-2024	+2.9×	Within the margin of error	1%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4132015-2019	0.5112020-2024	+0.098	Within the margin of error	5%
Median household income	$107,0672015-2019	$103,0422020-2024	−3.8%	Within the margin of error	5%
Rent as share of income	21.6%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+29 points	Declined	0%
Rent-burdened households	38.1%2015-2019	71.6%2020-2024	+33 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	20.6%2015-2019	19.2%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Within the margin of error	62%

“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 El Jebel, Colorado five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of El Jebel, 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.

For comparison, El Jebel, Colorado itself moved −27.5 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

2,941 residents (±511)

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: 30–39 men (−12.7 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 B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

2,941 residents (±511)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

White74%2,167
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino21%†627

Education

2,066 residents (±369)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

No high school diploma13%†267
High school or GED13%†270
Some college10%†

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

1,321 households (±251)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

Under $25k8.6%†113
$25k–50k17%†221
$50k–75k8.6%†113
$75k–100k15%†202
$100k–150k9.2%†121
$150k–200k13%†170
$200k or more29%†381

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (−18.1 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

1,321 households (±251)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

Own76%1,001
Rent24%†320

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† 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

320 households (±231)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

Under $7500.0%0
$750–1,00017%†54
$1,000–1,50020%†63

Home values

1,001 homes (±195)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

Under $150k5.3%†53
$150k–250k14%†140
$250k–400k0.0%0

Age of homes

1,336 homes (±256)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

2010 or later5.9%†79
2000–20097.1%†95
1980–199971%948

Size of homes

1,336 homes (±256)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom4.7%†63
2 bedrooms8.3%†111

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

1,832 workers (±505)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

Drive alone59%†1,075
Carpool9.8%†180
Public transit18%†330
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home13%†247
Other0.0%0

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† 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

1,585 workers (±516)

El Jebel, Colorado
Colorado share

Under 15 min20%†315
15–29 min20%†311
30–44 min27%†421

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 Edwards, 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 Eagle County, the county holding most of El Jebel's residents.

Eagle County has 3,664 employer establishments, 669 for every 10,000 residents (2.69× the US rate of 248; 2.17× Colorado's), with 36,282 paid employees at an average annual pay of $56,726. The Census Bureau also counts 8,323 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,664; 8,323 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 669; US 248 · Colorado 309
Paid employees: 36,282
Average annual pay: $56,726; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	462	84.3	5.45×More than typical	2,593	$77,347	640
Lessors of real estate	423	77.2	6.27×More than typical	1,944	$66,774	1,882
Real estate agents and brokers	241	44	9.04×More than typical	341	$135,915	290
Construction of buildings	214	39	5.16×More than typical	772	$102,522	345
Restaurants and other eating places	206	37.6	2.05×More than typical	5,111	$32,881	34
Services to buildings and dwellings	183	33.4	4.95×More than typical	1,095	$55,859	436
Building finishing contractors	169	30.8	8.11×More than typical	703	$65,447	303
Ambulatory health care services	163	29.7	1.43×More than typical	1,184	$98,203	288
Building equipment contractors	146	26.6	4.43×More than typical	969	$82,107	72
Full-service restaurants	135	24.6	3.21×More than typical	3,532	$36,461	18
Architectural, engineering and related services	119	21.7	6.23×More than typical	418	$96,512	90
Landscaping services	108	19.7	5.63×More than typical	375	$104,813	110

Rank places for an industry Open Eagle County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 54,807 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

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in El Jebel, Colorado: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

15.8KFY2018

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in El Jebel, Colorado, so they do not add up across cities.

El Jebel, Colorado's figures are part of those of Eagle County, CO ($5.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: El Jebel is mostly in Eagle County.

See federal money in Eagle 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.

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