Census-designated place · Fremont County, Colorado

Lincoln Park, Colorado

Lincoln Park is a census-designated place in Fremont County, Colorado, part of the Cañon City, CO metro area. It has 3,986 residents. Lincoln Park, Colorado has a quality-of-life score of 22 out of 100 (low), ranking #12,282 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Colorado it ranks #214 of 220 cities and towns. It ranks best on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low), high school diploma or higher (high) and median Air Quality Index (low). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), rent as share of income (high) and firearm deaths (high).

22Low

Quality-of-life score: #12,282 of 15,651 cities and towns
Colorado: #214 of 220 in CO
Population: 3,986 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 1,053.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 0845145

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety7#14,569/15,637
Economy23#12,031/15,631
Housing13#13,055/14,977
Health26#11,555/15,609
Healthcare23#12,087/15,650
Environment99#134/15,453
Education56#6,854/15,649
Infrastructure13#13,643/15,650
Community30#10,909/15,651
Leisure & amenities46#8,401/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Lincoln Park, Colorado ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Fremont 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

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low4.3 µg/m³
99/100Colorado 5.8 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyFremont County value
High school diploma or higher · high98.4%
98/100Colorado 92.9%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Median Air Quality Index · low23
97/100Colorado 482025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyFremont County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,709 /100k
93/100Colorado 1,686 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFremont County value
Hot days · low2 days
93/100Colorado 23 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationFremont County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.44%
91/100Colorado 0.50%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Weaknesses

Suicide rate · high47.7 /100k
1/100Colorado 22.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataFremont County value
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Colorado 31.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Firearm deaths · high29.8 /100k
3/100Colorado 15.5 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataFremont County value
Distance to an emergency room · high15.5 mi
7/100Colorado 5.2 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesFremont County value
Grocery stores · low0.8 /10k
7/100Colorado 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFremont County value
Injury deaths · high135 /100k
8/100Colorado 97 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFremont County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,283 (2015-2019) → 3,986 (2020-2024)
+21%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
26.5% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
34.8% (2015-2019) → 55.0% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
24.1% (2015-2019) → 9.5% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.8× (2015-2019) → 4.9× (2020-2024)
+30%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
5.2% (2015-2019) → 9.9% (2020-2024)
+4.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Lincoln Park, Colorado improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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+25 points26.5% → 51.0%

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Lincoln Park, Colorado between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.8 min2015-2019	21.9 min2020-2024	+1.1 min	Within the margin of error	35%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.0%2015-2019	23.6%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Broadband subscriptions	78.7%2015-2019	79.0%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Effective property tax rate	0.46%2015-2019	0.44%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	19%
High school diploma or higher	94.9%2015-2019	98.4%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Home price to income ratio	3.8×2015-2019	4.9×2020-2024	+1.1×	Within the margin of error	18%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3932015-2019	0.4452020-2024	+0.052	Within the margin of error	16%
Median household income	$50,0422015-2019	$60,0362020-2024	+20%	Within the margin of error	33%
Poverty rate	16.8%2015-2019	13.9%2020-2024	−3 points	Within the margin of error	69%
Rent as share of income	26.5%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+25 points	Declined	1%
Rent-burdened households	34.8%2015-2019	55.0%2020-2024	+20 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.2%2015-2019	9.9%2020-2024	+4.7 points	Within the margin of error	11%

“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 Lincoln Park, Colorado five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lincoln Park, 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, Lincoln Park, Colorado itself moved −19.4 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

3,986 residents (±509)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

1,799 households (±196)

Lincoln Park, Colorado
Colorado share

Under $25k22%†397
$25k–50k22%†401
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,799 households (±196)

Lincoln Park, Colorado
Colorado share

Own79%1,420
Rent21%†379

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,220 workers (±270)

Lincoln Park, Colorado
Colorado share

Drive alone75%912
Carpool9.3%†114
Public transit0.0%0

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 Cañon City, 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 Fremont County, the county holding most of Lincoln Park's residents.

Fremont County has 938 employer establishments, 186 for every 10,000 residents (0.75× the US rate of 248; 0.60× Colorado's), with 8,603 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,161. The Census Bureau also counts 3,511 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 938; 3,511 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 186; US 248 · Colorado 309
Paid employees: 8,603
Average annual pay: $42,161; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	105	20.9	1.35×More than typical	497	$50,565	329
Ambulatory health care services	74	14.7	0.71×Fewer than typical	753	$60,603	173
Restaurants and other eating places	70	13.9	0.76×Fewer than typical	1,133	$21,872	19
Lessors of real estate	56	11.1	0.90×About typical	163	$32,908	358
Building equipment contractors	46	9.1	1.52×More than typical	228	$45,917	40
Religious organizations	38	7.6	1.36×More than typical	175	$22,840	—
Full-service restaurants	36	7.2	0.93×About typical	537	$25,974	—
Construction of buildings	32	6.4	0.84×About typical	64	$47,313	178
Offices of other health practitioners	29	5.8	0.95×About typical	381	$61,126	90
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	29	5.8	1.75×More than typical	159	$47,006	18
Other specialty trade contractors	27	5.4	2.14×More than typical	150	$56,140	126
Real estate agents and brokers	27	5.4	1.10×About typical	55	$37,582	109

Rank places for an industry Open Fremont County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 50,315 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: Lincoln Park is mostly in Fremont County.

See federal money in Fremont 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.

Lincoln Park, Colorado is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Brittany PettersenD-CO-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 15.4%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Fremont County37100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Cañon City, CO35

Other cities and towns in Fremont County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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