Wheat Ridge · Jefferson County

Contractor sites for Wheat Ridge, built on the numbers.

Wheat Ridge is a small, older Jefferson County city with the metro's highest self-employment rate and mid-century housing — a market of independent operators and aging homes.

Wheat Ridge by the numbers

US Census ACS 2024 five-year estimates. Sourced in full below.

Population
32,070
Median age
41.9
Median household income
$90,564
Median home value
$623,000
Owner-occupied
54.4%
Broadband access
92.0%
Self-employed
13.0%
Median year built
1965

What the data says about building here

Wheat Ridge has the metro's highest self-employment rate — 13.0% — and mid-century housing (median built 1965). It is a market of independent operators and aging homes, and it sat in the path of the May 2017 hailstorm: the National Weather Service logged baseball-size hail across the western suburbs, Wheat Ridge included.

It is a small, older Jefferson County city (32,070 residents, median age 41.9) with 54.4% owner-occupancy. Restoration, roofing, and remodel work all run steady in housing this age, and the self-employed base reads a contractor's site like a peer would.

The anchoring base is Jefferson County's 17,999 establishments and $13.0B in annual payroll (CBP 2023), which includes 2,099 construction firms — the metro's largest construction base.

The Jefferson County business base

Wheat Ridge's market sits inside Jefferson County's 17,999 employer establishments and $13.0B in annual payroll (County Business Patterns 2023). 2,099 of those are construction firms employing about 16,519 people — the trades a site like this is built for.

What we build for Wheat Ridge contractors

Run a contracting business in Wheat Ridge? Tell us about it through the form. You'll get a plain answer on scope, price, and fit — and the standing disclosure that we're a Campbell Digital Studio brand out of Daphne, Alabama, with no Wheat Ridge office. The work runs remotely.

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