Pueblo County, Colorado

A county in Colorado, ranked 10 of 64 by population.

CountyFIPS 08101

Within Colorado
Pueblo County, highlighted, with the areas around it. Boundaries generalised from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file; neighbour fills carry no data. The dot marks Pueblo, the county seat, located via the 2025 Census Gazetteer.

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Population
169,277
+943 (+0.6%) since 2020
Land area
2,387
square miles. A further 0.5% of the total area is water
Population density
70.9
people per square mile, computed rather than published
County seat
Pueblo
Seat of county government.
Established
1874
151 years ago
Largest city
Pueblo city
Population 110,404.

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Pueblo County with its boundary drawn on top. A map shows you the shape; this shows you what is inside it, and which side of the line a place falls on.

Aerial view of Pueblo County, Colorado from the USGS National Map, with its boundary outlined
Imagery: USGS National Map, USGS Imagery Only, public domain, requested from USGS by your browser when you reach this point on the page, at 797 by 800 pixels. The boundary is the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, reprojected to Web Mercator to match the imagery. You can also open the USGS National Map viewer.

Where Pueblo County ranks

Position among the 64 counties of Colorado, and among all 3,144 US counties and county-equivalents. Computed from the figures on this page.

MeasureValueIn ColoradoNationally
Population169,27710th of 64417th of 3,144
Land area2,387 sq mi13th of 64231st of 3,144
Population density70.9 per sq mi11th of 641,171st of 3,144
Median household income$64,01044th of 641,707th of 3,143

Full data for Pueblo County

Every figure below is attributed to the Census Bureau product it came from, with the vintage of that product.
MeasureValueSource and vintage
Population169,277Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Population in 2020168,334Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
2020 estimates base?168,167Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Land area2,387 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Water area11.2 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Total area2,398 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Population density?70.9 per sq miComputed: Vintage 2025 estimates divided by 2025 Gazetteer land area
Median household income$64,010American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median home value$291,300American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median age40.4American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Households68,523American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Housing units73,646American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, released 29 January 2026. Population density is computed here, not published: it divides the Vintage 2025 population estimate by the 2025 Gazetteer land area, which are two different Census products. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

How the population changed

The Census Bureau publishes the components behind an estimate, not just the total. For the year to July 2025:

Births minus deaths
-349
1,727 births, 2,076 deaths
Net migration
-535
More people moved out than moved in.

Source: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The 8 areas bordering Pueblo County

Ordered by the length of the border actually shared, which the Census Bureau publishes in its county adjacency file and which no other county reference presents.

Bordering areaStateShared borderPopulation
El Paso CountyColorado48 mi757,040
Huerfano CountyColorado41 mi7,011
Otero CountyColorado29 mi17,683
Crowley CountyColorado26 mi5,677
Fremont CountyColorado24 mi50,039
Custer CountyColorado24 mi5,590
Las Animas CountyColorado17 mi14,391
Lincoln CountyColorado98 ft5,645

Source: US Census Bureau, County Adjacency File, 2025 County Adjacency File, released 15 September 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

All 64 counties of Colorado

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Data on this page last rebuilt 30 August 2026. How these figures are produced.