Wheat Ridge · Jefferson County
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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.
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