Durango is a somewhat small city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 14,021 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Durango is the 35th largest community in Colorado.

Durango is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.90% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Durango is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Durango who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.99%), sales jobs (12.17%), and food service (11.95%).

Durango is a small town where college students really create the town feel and character. So many small towns have lost population over the last 20-30 years that having the local college presence in the Durango area, with all of the energy of the students filling area dorms and apartments each fall, really helps Durango maintain a good economy.

One of the benefits of Durango is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.89 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

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

Durango Information and Demographics

The population of Durango is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 42.96% of adults in Durango have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Durango in 2000 was $19,352, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $77,408 for a family of four.

Durango is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Durango home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Durango is White, followed by Native American. Durango also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.12% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Durango include German, Irish, English, Italian, European, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and Swedish.

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