Fort Collins is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 118,440 people and 25 constituent neighborhoods, Fort Collins is the fifth largest community in Colorado.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fort Collins is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Collins is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Collins who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.74%), sales jobs (11.56%), and management occupations (10.09%).

Also of interest is that Fort Collins has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Fort Collins really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Fort Collins is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Fort Collins more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Fort Collins's character and quality of life.

Not only is Fort Collins a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That's because Fort Collins is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Fort Collins a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Fort Collins is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.51 minutes getting to work every day.

Fort Collins Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Fort Collins. 48.35% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Fort Collins in 2000 was $22,133, which is upper middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,532 for a family of four.

The people who call Fort Collins home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Fort Collins is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Fort Collins include German, English, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Fort Collins is English. Some people also speak Spanish.