Fort Collins, CO
Class: Medium-sized city
Class rank: 8
A college town without pretensions, Fort Collins offers a range of entertainment options, outdoors and indoors. Rapid growth since the 1980s sparked city leaders to throw out the old zoning code and adopt a city plan designed to stop sprawl.
Combined college enrollment: 26,807
Population: 118,652
Population change, 1990-2000: 35.20%
Median age: 28.2
(National: 35.3)
Per capita income: $22,133
(National: $21,587)
Unemployment rate: 3%
(National: 4.0%)
Owner-occupied housing: 54.8%
Public library expenditures, per capita: $28.60
Community profiles:
Fort Collins, CO
Fort Collins demographics
College profiles:
Colorado State University
Notes:
1. All figures are for the years 1999-2000.
2. Combined enrollment figures are for the four-year colleges included in this
survey.
3. Unemployment rates are an annual average.
4. Per-capita income and unemployment rates are county-level statistics.
For more on the sources and statistics used in this study, see methodology.
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TOP-RANKED COLLEGE TOWNS
BY COMMUNITY SIZE |
| BIG CITIES |
1 Boston-Cambridge, MA
2 Minneapolis, MN
3 Denver, CO
4 Columbus, OH
5 Seattle, WA
6 Atlanta, GA
7 Austin, TX
8 Washington, DC
9 Cincinnati, OH
10 Saint Louis, MO
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| MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES |
1 Columbia, SC
2 Tallahassee, FL
3 Madison, WI
4 Urbana-Champaign, IL
5 Ann Arbor, MI
6 Berkeley, CA
7 Athens, GA
8 Fort Collins, CO
9 New Haven, CT
10 Provo, UT
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| SMALL CITIES |
1 Charlottesville, VA
2 Bozeman, MT
3 Hays, KS
4 Boulder, CO
5 Missoula, MT
6 Manhattan, KS
7 Burlington, VT
8 Bismarck, ND
9 Iowa City, IA
10 Chapel Hill,
NC
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| TOWNS |
1 Hanover, NH
2 Princeton, NJ
3 Brookings, SD
4 Middlebury, VT
5 Durango, CO
6 Bronxville, NY
7 Menomonie, WI
8 Oneonta, NY
9 Rolla, MO
10 Conway, SC
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