Lafayette is a medium-sized city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 23,349 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Lafayette is the 26th largest community in Colorado.

Lafayette is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lafayette is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lafayette who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.60%), management occupations (11.60%), and sales jobs (10.51%).

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

As is often the case in a small city, Lafayette doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Lafayette Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Lafayette, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Lafayette is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 45.65% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Lafayette in 2000 was $27,780, which is wealthy relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,120 for a family of four.

Lafayette is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lafayette home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lafayette is White, followed by Asian. Lafayette also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.01% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Lafayette include German, English, Irish, Italian, Scottish, and Norwegian.

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