Population & Demographics
Fort Collins, CO
Fort Collins is home to 170,229 people. Explore its demographics, housing, and economy — plus how its 75,265 resident workers commute each day.
170,229 residents
Median age 30.9 · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year (2024).
Fort Collins population & demographics
Who lives in Fort Collins — population, age, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.
Race & ethnicity in Fort Collins
How Fort Collins breaks down by race and ethnicity — each bar is that group’s share of the population, from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2024).
Race across Fort Collins
Each dot is a group of people, placed in their 2020 Census block and colored by race or ethnicity — the pattern shows where groups live across Fort Collins.
These figures are for Fort Collins proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.
How Fort Collins commutes
Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.
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How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.
Fort Collins
75,265 commutes, one dot at a time
Fort Collins
Where 75,265 workers commute
Where residents work
Top destinations for people who live in Fort Collins, by worker count.
Who commutes in
Top origin places for workers who travel into Fort Collins.
Top industries
The sectors that employ Fort Collins’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.
Internet options for Fort Collins
The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.
FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).