Population (year 2000): 94,673 Males: 48,895 (51.6%), Females: 45,778 (48.4%)
Elevation: 5344 feet
County: Boulder
Land area: 24.4 square miles
Zip codes: 80301..80304, 80306..80310, 80321..80323, 80329, 80328, 80314. Median resident age: 29.0 years Median household income: $44,748 (year 2000) Median house value: $304,700 (year 2000)
Races in Boulder:
- White Non-Hispanic (84.2%)
- Hispanic (8.2%)
- Other race (3.5%)
- Two or more races (2.4%)
- Black (1.2%)
- Chinese (1.2%)
- American Indian (1.0%)
- Korean (0.6%)
- Asian Indian (0.6%)
- Other Asian (0.6%)
- Japanese (0.6%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Ancestries: German (20.9%), English (15.0%), Irish (13.9%), Italian (5.6%), Scottish (4.2%), Scottish (4.2%).
For population 25 years and over in Boulder city
- High school or higher: 94.7%
- Bachelor's degree or higher: 66.9%
- Graduate or professional degree: 30.5%
- Unemployed: 6.7%
- Mean travel time to work: 18.8 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Boulder city
- Never married: 49.1%
- Now married: 37.5%
- Separated: 1.1%
- Widowed: 3.5%
- Divorced: 8.8%
11.4% Foreign born (4.2% Latin America, 3.2% Asia, 2.8% Europe).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Denver, CO (28.6 miles, pop. 554,636).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Phoenix, AZ (648.8 miles, pop. 1,321,045).
Nearest cities: Eldorado Springs, CO (5.4 miles),
Gunbarrel, CO (5.9 miles),
Louisville, CO (8.5 miles),
Niwot, CO (8.8 miles),
Superior, CO (8.9 miles),
Gold Hill, CO (10.9 miles),
Jamestown, CO (11.0 miles),
Lafayette, CO (11.1 miles).
Single-family new house construction building permits:
- 1996: 124 buildings, average cost: $133,600
- 1997: 126 buildings, average cost: $141,600
- 1998: 296 buildings, average cost: $113,400
- 1999: 134 buildings, average cost: $146,000
- 2000: 109 buildings, average cost: $186,500
- 2001: 51 buildings, average cost: $220,000
- 2002: 74 buildings, average cost: $267,400
Industries providing employment: Educational,health and social services (25.2%), Professional,scientific,management,administrative,and waste management services (18.3%), Arts,entertainment,recreation,accommodation and food services (11.4%), Retail trade (11.1%).
Crime in Boulder (2001):- 0 murders (0.0 per 100,000)
- 30 rapes (31.7 per 100,000)
- 49 robberies (51.8 per 100,000)
- 132 assaults (139.4 per 100,000)
- 573 burglaries (605.2 per 100,000)
- 3,145 larceny counts (3322.0 per 100,000)
- 211 auto thefts (222.9 per 100,000)
- City-data.com crime index = 249.2 (higher means more crime, US average = 330.6)
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