DerbyCO
A town of 8,453.
What should you know before moving to Derby?
Derby's schools rank behind 96% of the state's. Overall it grades C+, 117th among Colorado's 158 graded towns. It is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. On health, just 11 of Colorado’s 218 towns do worse.
What makes Derby stand out
Where Derby beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Dupont Elementary School | PK–6 | 488 |
| Monaco Elementary School | PK–6 | 434 |
99% of working residents leave Derby for work
Where Derby’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Derby grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Colorado), ordered by how far Derby is from typical.
Its grades run from A for walkability (better than 93% of comparable towns) to D− for schools (better than 4%), so the C+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The other Derby
Derby takes its name from Derby in Derbyshire, England, 4,570 miles across the Atlantic.
UKUK editionDerby takes its name from Derby, a city in Derbyshire, England.
2 more U.S. towns are named after Derby:Derby, CT12,925Derby, VT4,456
Named after: each U.S. town’s Wikipedia article. Grades compare each town with towns in its own country, so they aren’t a head-to-head.
Empower Field at Mile High and 57 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Derby. Close and well known come first.
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaEmpower Field at Mile High
8 mi Stadium & arenaBall Arena
Big draw20 mi TheatreRed Rocks Amphitheatre
7 mi Stadium & arenaCoors Field
3 mi Stadium & arenaDick's Sporting Goods Park
8 mi Theme parkElitch Gardens Theme ParkPhoto credits
Empower Field at Mile High: Thelastcanadian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ball Arena: KM Newnham, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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 Derby: who provides what
Derby is unincorporated, so Adams 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 Derby.
Derby has home values still below their peak, has added half again as many jobs in ten years and has a shorter frost-free season than most of the country, though not than most of Colorado.
Derby’s grade for schools is a D−
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. Its public schools are run by the Adams County School District No. 14. The 2 public schools in Derby teach 922 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dupont Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 488 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CO on state tests and graduation
With only 0.4 jobs per working resident, most people in Derby work out of town
Jobs based here grew from 847 in 2013 to 1,406.
The top destinations are Denver (25%), Commerce City (14%) and Aurora (10%). Since 2013, Derby has added 559 jobs, to 1,406 in 2023. In Derby, 7.9% of workers work remotely from home. Among 159 Colorado towns, just 6 have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Derby.
| Derby | Colorado towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 7.9% | 18% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 7.8% | 8% |
| Median household income | $82,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The typical home in Derby: about $360K
The typical value, about $360K, is 10% below its July 2022 peak.
The going rate for rent for Derby comes to $1,689 a month. Typical home values fell 3.1% in the year to September 2026. Also worth knowing: a home in Derby typically sold within 25 days of listing.
| Derby | Colorado towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,689 a month | $1,812 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 71% | 71% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Top of a low hazard risk in Derby: hail
FEMA expects less storm and flood damage in Derby than in 71% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 40% come from hail and 20% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Snowy winters and hot summers in Derby
The Denver-stapleton weather station, 6 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 156 days: shorter than most of the country, but longer than 77% of Colorado places with climate records.
The range runs from 18° on a January night to 90° on a July afternoon, with about 49 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Compared with most of Colorado and the rest of the country, more of Derby’s adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance
Among adults in Derby, 25% say their health is fair or poor and 29% get no exercise outside work. In Derby, 68% of adults had a checkup this year, where Colorado’s towns sit at 71% and U.S. towns at 79%. Only 6 of the 159 Colorado towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have obesity than Derby. 15% of adults report frequent physical distress here.
| Derby | Colorado towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 10% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 68% | 71% | 79% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 15% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 16% | 25% |
| What stands out | Derby | CO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.2% | 7.8% |
| Fewer binge drinkers | 16% | 19% |
| More uninsured adults | 28.4% | 11.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Derby
Colleges nearby
15 within 15 miles of the center of Derby
About 5 of every 100 Derby residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Colorado.
About Derby
Unincorporated community in Colorado, US
Derby is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Adams County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Derby CDP was 8,407 at the United States Census 2020.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 5,128 ft
- Area code
- 303, 702
Derby’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Derby.
| Town | CO rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derby | #117 | C+ | B | — | D− | C+ |
| Commerce City | #139 | C− | D | D | C+ | B |
Derby reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Derby with a neighbor →
Questions about Derby
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Derby, CO a good place to live?
Derby grades C+ overall, better than 38% of U.S. towns and #117 of 158 in Colorado. It grades C+ for health and D− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Derby, CO expensive?
That is 3.4 years of the area's median household income ($105,762 across the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.