About Ordway

Ordway is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 2,871 people and just one neighborhood, Ordway is the 104th largest community in Colorado. Much of the housing stock in Ordway was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Ordway is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ordway is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ordway who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.98%), teaching (8.22%), and farm management (7.52%).

Another important characteristic of Ordway is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

Being a small town, Ordway does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Ordway Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Ordway with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 10.76% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ordway in 2000 was $12,177, which is low income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $48,708 for a family of four.

Ordway is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ordway home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Ordway is White, followed by African-American. Ordway also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.52% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Ordway include German, English, Irish, and French.

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