Who lives in Commerce City, Colorado?
Colorado · West · 63K residents · Suburban
Key signals
vs. national baselineHow Commerce City compares
Where Commerce City lands when every US city is ranked on the same behavioral measures, and the cities whose residents most closely mirror its habits, values, and personality.
National standings
17 measures · percentile vs. 865 US citiesClosest matches
similarity, 0–100Who they are
Commerce City is a roughly 63,050-person suburb wedged against Denver's northeast industrial flank, two places under one name. The southern half grew up around the Suncor refinery and the old Derby and Rose Hill neighborhoods, while the Northern Range fills with new rooftops stretching toward the airport. The defining fact is ethnicity: close to 47% of residents are Hispanic, against roughly 19% nationally, the loudest signal on the whole profile.
The age curve runs young for a suburb. The 35-to-44 band sits near 24% versus about 16% across the country, the prime years for raising kids and carrying a mortgage, while residents over 65 land around 11% against a national 21%. This is a place of working households mid-build, not a retiree belt or a college town.
Gender split
vs. national baselineAge distribution
audience % · vs. national baselineHow they think
Personality here sits close to the national baseline on most axes, so the honest read is that Commerce City does not think in some exotic way. The one real movement is a calmer emotional register: residents run about three points below average on the tendency toward worry and stress, the steadiest reading on the profile.
Decision-making leans a touch faster than typical and risk appetite tilts slightly toward the upside, though both stay within normal range. The practical takeaway is a population that makes up its mind without much hand-wringing and does not spook easily.
Decision psychology
audience % · vs. national baselineDecision speed
Risk tolerance
Personality fingerprint
Big Five (OCEAN) · 0–50–100 scaleAudience score on each Big Five axis. Dashed outline = national average.
Percentile position vs. 865 US cities. ● = this audience; center line = national median.
What they care about
On values, Commerce City reads as pragmatic and unbothered. Environmental priority, local-business loyalty, and ethical-consumption habits all track within a point or two of the national pattern, which is itself worth stating plainly for a city living next door to Colorado's only major refinery. Concern exists, but it has not hardened into activism.
Trust in big companies sits at the ordinary middle as well. These households weigh price and quality first and treat ethics as a tiebreaker rather than the headline, the posture of people stretching a paycheck across a full house.
Environmental priority
how much they prioritize sustainability when buying
Corporate skepticism
distrust of big-company motives and messaging
Local business preference
bias toward small/local over national chains
Ethical consumption
whether they actually act on ethical buying preferences
How to reach them
Facebook is the front door, carrying close to a third of residents as their main platform, with Instagram second and a notably small slice off social entirely. This is a connected audience: the laggard, slow-to-adopt segment runs well below the national share, and gaming reaches more of them than it does most places.
Short video and a mix of formats travel furthest, and the low share of non-gamers means in-game and streaming placements are not a wasted spend. Reach the household where it already gathers, on the feed rather than the niche app.
Where attention lives
social platformFormat mix
content formatHow they spend
Financially these households run steadier than their income tier would suggest. The share who save nothing sits near 18% against a national 27%, and the non-investor and minimal-insurance groups both come in lighter than typical. Money tends to move regularly here, not in feast-or-famine swings.
They buy often, with monthly and weekly shoppers running above the national rate and true rare buyers scarce. There is also an open door for subscriptions, with about 38% receptive versus roughly 32% nationally, so recurring-billing offers land better here than a one-time pitch.
Purchase motivation
Purchase frequency
Savings behavior
How they live
Health is where the lifestyle picture turns distinctive. Only about 5% of residents take a genuinely proactive approach to care, roughly a third of the national rate, the second-loudest signal on the profile. Care here tends to be reactive, the appointment you book when something is already wrong rather than the annual screen you schedule ahead.
Day-to-day health awareness still runs a notch above average, so the gap is about access and habit more than indifference. On mental wellness, residents lean selective, open to the topic with the right people but short on the loud advocates you find elsewhere.
Health consciousness
audience % · vs. national baselineMental wellness openness
audience % · vs. national baselineHow this profile was built
This profile draws on a population of 10M+ statistically modeled U.S. adults, calibrated against Census ACS data, BLS employment statistics, CDC BRFSS (N>400K), and peer-reviewed personality and consumer research. The traits most distinctive to Commerce City, Colorado (race ethnicity, healthcare style, and tech adoption) are primarily derived from the peer-reviewed and federal sources listed below.
References
- 1.U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey — Demographic Tables (B01001, B15003, B19001, B23025, C24050)
- 2.Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics / Current Employment Statistics
- 3.Bureau of Labor Statistics (2024). Consumer Expenditure Surveys
- 4.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) (N=400,000)
- 5.Pew Research Center (2016). Technology Adoption by Baby Boomers (and Everybody Else) (N=1,520)
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