County · Colorado

Weld County, Colorado

Weld County, Colorado has a quality-of-life score of 57 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #1,359 of 3,143 US counties. Within Colorado it ranks #42 of 64 counties. It ranks best on median household income (high), new homes permitted (high) and hospital quality rating (high). It ranks worst on high ozone days (high), median Air Quality Index (high) and rent-burdened households (high).

57Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#1,359 of 3,143 counties
Colorado
#42 of 64 in CO
Population
378,426 (2025)
Land area
3,985 mi²
Density
95.0 /mi²
FIPS code
08123

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 77 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Location of Weld County, Colorado

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

  • Safety43#1,755/3,096
  • Economy84#510/3,143
  • Housing10#2,830/3,140
  • Health80#624/3,144
  • Healthcare80#620/3,143
  • Environment11#2,752/3,108
  • Education58#1,323/3,144
  • Infrastructure78#689/3,144
  • Community69#970/3,144
  • Leisure & amenities25#2,363/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Weld County, Colorado ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Counties like Weld County, Colorado five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Weld County, 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

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 Greeley, 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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

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.

Metro area

The metro or micro area Weld County belongs to. A county is in at most one.

Cities and towns in Weld County

Places whose residents live mostly in Weld County, largest first.

  1. Greeley110,806
  2. Windsor37,914
  3. Erie33,808
  4. Evans22,396
  5. Johnstown18,883
  6. Firestone18,049
  7. Frederick16,651
  8. Severance10,130
  9. Fort Lupton8,897
  10. Milliken8,871
  11. Lochbuie8,609
  12. Dacono6,530
  13. Mead5,919
  14. Eaton5,867
  15. La Salle3,061
  16. Platteville2,928
  17. Ault2,425
  18. Keenesburg2,347
  19. Hudson2,006
  20. Aristocrat Ranchettes1,747
  21. Pierce1,201
  22. Kersey1,064
  23. Gilcrest1,026
  24. Garden City401

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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.

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