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Ranked · Buying a home · Colorado

Best cities for buying a home in Colorado

Cities of 25,000+ residents, scored with the “Buying a home” weighting the live tool uses, heaviest on median home price, property tax rate, home price yoy, cost of living index. Scores are relative to this set; open the tool to change the weights and re-rank.

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Top 10 · computed ranking

  1. 1.Colorado Springs, CO488k residents

    69/100

    median home price: $450,000 · property tax rate: 0.45% · home price yoy: -2.0%

  2. 2.Pueblo, CO112k residents

    55/100

    median home price: $247,200 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: -2.0%

  3. 3.Commerce City, CO66k residents

    53/100

    median home price: $499,700 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: -4.2%

  4. 4.Aurora, CO394k residents

    51/100

    median home price: $469,100 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: -3.9%

  5. 5.Security-Widefield, CO37k residents

    51/100

    median home price: $387,500 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: -1.8%

  6. 6.Brighton, CO42k residents

    50/100

    median home price: $499,500 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: -3.3%

  7. 7.Pueblo West, CO36k residents

    50/100

    median home price: $397,000 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: —

  8. 8.Northglenn, CO38k residents

    49/100

    median home price: $462,100 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: -3.6%

  9. 9.Fountain, CO29k residents

    49/100

    median home price: $398,000 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: -1.1%

  10. 10.Denver, CO719k residents

    48/100

    median home price: $560,000 · property tax rate: 0.5% · home price yoy: -3.9%

Methodology: each city is scored 0–100 by min–max normalizing every weighted facet across this candidate set (direction-aware), identical math to the tool's “Best fit” tab. A different weighting produces a different order, which is the point: this is a starting shortlist, not a verdict.

Questions & answers
Which city is best for buying a home in Colorado?
Colorado Springs, CO ranks first with a fit score of 69/100, followed by Pueblo (55) and Commerce City (53), using the "Buying a home" weighting.
How is this ranking calculated?
Each of the 10 candidate cities (25,000+ residents) is scored 0 to 100 by min-max normalizing the weighted facets, heaviest on median home price, property tax rate, home price yoy, cost of living index, across this set. Change the weights in the live tool and the order changes with them.