Aetna EstatesCO
A town of 1,010.
Is Aetna Estates a good place to live?
Aetna Estates’ best subject grades are an A+ for cost of living and an A for incomes; its weakest is a D for schools. On cost of living, just 2 of Colorado’s 217 towns do better. Only 12 of Colorado’s 218 towns score lower on the outdoors. Aetna Estates has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
1,010 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Aetna Estates grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Colorado), ordered by how far Aetna Estates is from typical.
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre and 54 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Aetna Estates. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi TheatreRed Rocks Amphitheatre
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaEmpower Field at Mile High
18 mi Stadium & arenaBall Arena
17 mi Stadium & arenaCoors Field
13 mi Stadium & arenaDick's Sporting Goods Park
18 mi Theme parkElitch Gardens Theme ParkPhoto credits
Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Empower Field at Mile High: Thelastcanadian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ball Arena: KM Newnham, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Coors Field: Matt Kozlowski, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dick's Sporting Goods Park: Tom Pratt, CC BY 2.0 · Elitch Gardens Theme Park: USGS, Public domain
Moving to Aetna Estates: who provides what
Aetna Estates is unincorporated, so Arapahoe County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Aetna Estates.
Aetna Estates stands out in Colorado and nationally: a smaller share of its residents live below the poverty line
1.1% of residents live below the poverty line in Aetna Estates, below both the Colorado town median (8.4%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). Of the 160 Colorado towns we compare, none has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Aetna Estates. The average trip to work in Aetna Estates is 29 minutes.
| Aetna Estates | Colorado towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 1.1% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.1% | 7.7% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Aetna Estates are healthier than 71% of U.S. towns
Aetna Estates beats the Colorado average on 7 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 65% of adults had a checkup this year in Aetna Estates, against 71% in Colorado’s towns and 79% across U.S. towns. 26% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Aetna Estates.
| Aetna Estates | Colorado towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 65% | 71% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 10% | 8.1% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 27% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| What stands out | Aetna Estates | CO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.7% | 7.8% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 17.2% | 22.9% |
| More uninsured adults | 25.5% | 11.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Snowy winters and hot summers in Aetna Estates
Aetna Estates has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers, with very little rain. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 18° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Aetna Estates faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by hail
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 52% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Aetna Estates
Colleges nearby
6 within 15 miles of the center of Aetna Estates
About 2 of every 100 Aetna Estates residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Colorado.
100% of working residents leave Aetna Estates for work
Where Aetna Estates’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Aetna Estates
Census-designated place in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States
Aetna Estates is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Aetna Estates CDP was 1,496 at the United States Census 2020. The unincorporated community is surrounded by Aurora and lies in ZIP Code 80018.
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- Area
- 0.1 sq mi
Questions about Aetna Estates
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Aetna Estates, CO expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.