Mountain MeadowsCO
It is a town of 180 residents in Colorado.
Is Mountain Meadows a good place to live?
83% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Mountain Meadows, against 44% in Colorado’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns. Of the 160 Colorado towns we compare, none has a higher median age than Mountain Meadows. Mountain Meadows’ concentration of trails is 2.4 miles per square mile, above both the Colorado town median (1.3) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). Mountain Meadows has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
180 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Moving to Mountain Meadows: who provides what
Mountain Meadows is unincorporated, so Boulder 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 Mountain Meadows.
In Mountain Meadows, the FEMA risk score runs higher than in the typical Colorado or U.S. town
FEMA puts 47% of Mountain Meadows’s expected hazard losses down to wildfires, and 27% to avalanches. Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 98% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Mountain Meadows’ workers head elsewhere: there are 0.3 jobs for each of them
Just 1% of Mountain Meadows’s working residents have a job in town. The top destinations are Boulder (34%), Denver (9%) and Westminster (4%). The median commute is under 15 miles.
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Snowy winters and pleasant summers: that is Mountain Meadows’ year
Mountain Meadows’ July high is recorded as 80°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A smaller share of adults sleep under 7 hours in Mountain Meadows than in most of Colorado or the rest of the country
Mountain Meadows beats the Colorado average on 11 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 3. The share of adults in Mountain Meadows who smoke cigarettes is 8.3%. Among 160 Colorado towns, just 5 have a lower share of adults who get no exercise outside work than Mountain Meadows.
| Mountain Meadows | Typical Colorado town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 26% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 30% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 16% | 25% |
| What stands out | Mountain Meadows | CO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.3% | 11.1% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 5% | 9.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.6% | 7.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Mountain Meadows sell for about $1.04M
Among 160 Colorado towns, just one has a higher share of homes lived in by their owners than Mountain Meadows.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Red Rocks Amphitheatre and 67 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mountain Meadows. Close and well known come first.
Big draw27 mi TheatreRed Rocks Amphitheatre
Big draw27 mi Stadium & arenaEmpower Field at Mile High
14 mi National ParkRocky Mountain National Park4.2M visitors a year
28 mi Stadium & arenaBall Arena
6 mi Stadium & arenaFolsom Field
28 mi Stadium & arenaCoors FieldPhoto credits
Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Empower Field at Mile High: Thelastcanadian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Rocky Mountain National Park: Charles M. Sauer -- Charlessauer, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ball Arena: KM Newnham, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Folsom Field: Thelastcanadian, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Coors Field: Matt Kozlowski, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Mountain Meadows
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Mountain Meadows
About 0 of every 100 Mountain Meadows residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Colorado.
99% of working residents leave Mountain Meadows for work
Where Mountain Meadows’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Mountain Meadows
Census-designated place in Boulder County, CO, USA
Mountain Meadows is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Mountain Meadows CDP was 237 at the United States Census 2020. The Boulder post office (Zip Code 80302) serves the area.
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- Area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 7,260 ft
Questions about Mountain Meadows
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mountain Meadows, CO a good place to live?
Mountain Meadows has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.