Pitkin County — Financial Data

17,119 Population FY 2023

Tax Snapshot (Beta)

Beta: source-backed tax context only. This is not a personalized tax-burden estimate.

Current source-backed tax context for Colorado and Pitkin County.

Component	Summary	Effective	Coverage	Sources
CO sales and use tax (state base)	Colorado state sales tax rate is 2.9%; local rates may apply in addition.	Current Department of Revenue guidance (as accessed April 18, 2026).	Rate missing	Colorado sales tax guide
CO property tax policy (local levy system)	Colorado property taxes are local; county assessors value property and local taxing authorities set mill levies, with revenue staying in-county.	Current Colorado Division of Property Taxation guidance (as accessed April 18, 2026).	Needs review	Understanding property taxes in Colorado
CO state individual income tax	Colorado charges one flat rate on the federal taxable income reported on Form 1040 line 15, taken whole: DR 0104 line 1 is "Federal Taxable Income from your federal income tax form", so this estimate cites IRS sources alongside Colorado's and grants no state standard deduction or personal exemption of its own. The rate is 4.25% for tax year 2024 and 4.40% for 2025. One provision changes that base on this surface: for a household with $300,000 or more of adjusted gross income, DR 0104 line 4 adds back the federal deduction the filer claimed above a state exemption of $12,000, or $16,000 filing jointly. Two credits are modeled. The TABOR State Sales Tax Refund returns a share of the state's constitutional revenue surplus through the return, as a flat amount for each qualifying individual banded by modified adjusted gross income — $177 to $565 for one individual in 2024, and $19 to $59 in 2025, doubled on a joint return where both spouses qualify. The earned income tax credit is half the federal credit and refundable. Several Colorado credits are NOT modeled and are named on the estimate instead, because each depends on a fact this calculator does not collect: both age-banded child credits, the child care expenses credits, the care worker credit and the senior housing credit. A household eligible for any of them owes less than shown. Below $50,000 of Colorado taxable income the booklet prints a tax table that charges the rate at each band's midpoint; this estimate applies the statutory rate exactly, which can differ from the printed table by up to $2.20 in either direction. No Colorado local income layer is modeled: the employee occupational privilege taxes levied by Denver, Glendale, Sheridan and Greenwood Village (and Aurora for 2024) are flat monthly head taxes on work performed there, $24 to $69 a year, and a household working in one of those cities owes that much more than shown. The estimate prices a household taking the FEDERAL STANDARD deduction. A household that itemizes federally adds its state income tax back on DR 0104 line 2, which this estimate does not model, so an itemizing filer owes more than shown — about $245 more for a single filer at $500,000 of income under the current state and local tax cap.	Tax years 2024 and 2025.	Source verified	Colorado DR 0104 Book 2025 (line 1 as federal taxable income, the 4.4% rate, the TABOR modified-AGI tier table, and the income tax table); Colorado DR 0104 Book 2024 (the 4.25% rate and the 2024 TABOR tier table); Colorado DR 0104CN (the regular child credit and the Family Affordability Tax Credit this estimate discloses); Colorado DR 0104 Book 2024 and 2025, DR 0104CR line 4 (the refundable earned income tax credit at fifty percent of the federal credit, C.R.S. section 39-22-123.5 as amended by HB24-1134); Colorado Department of Revenue Income Tax Topics, State Sales Tax Refund (C.R.S. section 39-22-2003, the refund's per-qualifying-individual structure and eligibility conditions); Colorado Department of Revenue Income Tax Topics, State Sales Tax Refund (a qualifying individual filing jointly with someone who does not qualify takes the single-filer amount)
ACS owner-occupied median property tax Best current homeowner-bill proxy for this Census geography; reported bills can include state, county, municipal, and applicable local real-estate tax layers.	$4,450 ACS median real-estate taxes paid by owner-occupied housing units.	ACS2023	Source observation available	Pitkin County Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2023

Community Profile

Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimates

7.2% Poverty Rate 2023

64.0% Bachelor's+ Rate 2023

1.5% Unemployment Rate 2023

67.5% Homeownership Rate 2023

Median Household Income

$100,318 (2023)

2010 2023

Per Capita Income

$105,096 (2023)

2010 2023

Median Home Value

$1,131,200 (2023)

2010 2023

Median Gross Rent

$1,880 (2023)

2010 2023

Median Age

47.3 (2023)

2010 2023

Gini Index

0 = perfect equality · 1 = perfect inequality

0.6 (2023)

2010 2023

Financial Documents (13)

Year	Title	Type
2023	Pitkin County Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2023	US_CENSUS_ACS5
2022	Pitkin County Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2022	US_CENSUS_ACS5
2021	Pitkin County Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2021	US_CENSUS_ACS5
2019	Pitkin County Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2019	US_CENSUS_ACS5
2018	Pitkin County Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2018	US_CENSUS_ACS5

Governance & Structure

Governance Structure

Structure: Not specified
Fiscal Autonomy: Not specified
ICMA Recognition: —
Notes: None

School Details

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Geographic Relationships

This entity is within

Wholly within: Colorado

Within this entity

Wholly contains: Aspen
Wholly contains: Norrie
Wholly contains: Redstone
Wholly contains: Town of Snowmass Village (Pitkin County)
Wholly contains: Woody Creek
Partly contains: Town of Basalt (Eagle County)