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Fort Collins, Colorado
Demographic Information
Population: 128,000
| Financial | |||||
| Median
family income (per year) |
$64,623 | ||||
| Family
purchasing power (annual, cost-of-living adjusted) |
$59,781 | ||||
| Sales tax | 6.70% | ||||
| State
income tax rate (highest bracket) |
4.63% | ||||
| State
income tax rate (lowest bracket) |
4.63% | ||||
| Auto
insurance premiums (Average for the state) |
$2,194 | ||||
| Job
growth % (2000-2005) |
6.13% | ||||
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| Housing | |||||
| Median home price | $212,000 | ||||
| Home
price gain (2004-2005) |
2.70% | ||||
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| Education | |||||
| Colleges,
universities and professional schools |
2 | ||||
| Junior
colleges and technical institutes |
2 | ||||
| Test
scores reading (% +/- state average) |
18.6% | ||||
| Test
scores math (% +/- state average) |
21.7% | ||||
| %
students attending public/private schools |
94.1/5.90 | ||||
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| Quality of life | |||||
| Air
quality index (% of days AQI ranked as good) |
90.4% | ||||
| Personal
crime risk (100 is nat'l average; lower is better) |
77 | ||||
| Property
crime risk (100 is nat'l average; lower is better) |
91 | ||||
| Personal
crime incidents (per 100,000) |
282 | ||||
| Property
crime incidents (per 100,000) |
3,684 | ||||
| Median
commute time (in minutes) |
15.0 | ||||
| %
population with commute 45 mins. or longer |
7.6% | ||||
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| Leisure and culture | |||||
| Movie
theaters (within 15 miles) |
6 | ||||
| Restaurants (within 15 miles) |
652 | ||||
| Bars (within 15 miles) |
30 | ||||
| Public
golf courses (within 30 miles) |
19 | ||||
| Libraries (within 15 miles) |
13 | ||||
| Museums
(accredited by AAM within 30 miles) |
1 | ||||
| Ski resorts (within 100 miles) | 13 | ||||
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| Weather | |||||
| Annual
precipitation (inches) |
15.84 | ||||
| Clear days | 106 | ||||
| High temp in July ° F | 85.5° | ||||
| Low temp in Jan ° F | 15.3° | ||||
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| Health | |||||
| Has
health plan (% of residents) |
82.3% | ||||
| Body
mass index (avg. for residents) |
25 | ||||
| Cancer
mortality (per 100,000, age-adjusted) |
137.6 | ||||
| Cardiac
mortality (per 100,000) |
148.3 | ||||
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| People | |||||
| Median age | 28.8 | ||||
| Completed
at least some college (% of residents) |
77.6% | ||||
| Married | 43.6% | ||||
| Divorced | 9.3% | ||||
| Amount
spent on vacations (domestic and foreign, household avg. per year) |
$7,209 | ||||
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| Surrounding cities and towns | |||||
| Loveland, CO | |||||
| Greeley, CO | |||||
| Longmont, CO | |||||
| Boulder, CO | |||||
| Cheyenne, WY | |||||
| Thornton, CO | |||||
| Westminster, CO | |||||
| Arvada, CO | |||||
| Denver, CO | |||||
| Lakewood, CO | |||||
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| Colorado companies | |||||
| FORTUNE: Best to work for | |||||
| Company | Best Companies Rank | ||||
| PCL Construction | 65 | ||||
| CH2M Hill | 80 | ||||
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| FORTUNE 500 | |||||
| Company | F500 rank | ||||
| Qwest Communications | 160 | ||||
| First Data | 224 | ||||
| TransMontaigne | 269 | ||||
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| Biggest employers | |||||
| Company | Employees | ||||
| Alpine Access, Inc. | 4,000 | ||||
| Poudre School District | 3,185 | ||||
| J D Edwards & Company | 3,000 | ||||
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