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How Longmont's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Longmont?
Your $100,000 in Longmont has the same purchasing power as $82,271 in the average US city. You'd need $17,729 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
See a side-by-side breakdown of cost of living, housing, and salaries.
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Within 10 points of Longmont's cost index of 122, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Longmont, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. A higher-income labor market than the national norm and most daily life happens on foot lead, plus 2 more things worth knowing — the rest unpacked below.
The typical household in Longmont pulls in $89,720 — comfortably above the US median. Combined with the cost of living here, the income-to-expense ratio works out better than a quick look at either number in isolation would suggest.
With a Walk Score of 94/100, Longmont is in the category where car ownership becomes a real choice rather than the default. Errands work on foot, the city's built dense enough that things are actually close together, and the parking-and-gas budget can quietly disappear.
Average AQI in Longmont comes in around 33, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Longmont has a college-educated share of about 46% among adults 25+, which is higher than the national norm. It shows up in the local job mix, in the school district's reputation, and in the kind of conversations you have at the coffee shop.
Reasons are pulled from Longmont's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Longmont does winter the real way. Averages around 19°F keep snow on the ground for weeks at a time, and lakes and rivers tend to freeze hard enough to walk on.
Properly cold. Longmont's winter sits around 19°F on average — and that's the average, meaning plenty of nights drop well below zero. People here own gear.
Reliably warm. Longmont's summer averages around 87°F, the kind of heat where you remember to leave the house before noon for outdoor things and accept that the back of your shirt will be wet by lunchtime.
Zone 7, give or take a half-zone. Longmont's typical winter low puts it in that band on the USDA Hardiness map, which is what nurseries label plants against. Use Zone 7 as your starting filter; the USDA's interactive map is more precise for borderline cases.
Roughly 4,987 feet (1,520 m) above sea level. At that altitude, the first few days for a coastal visitor can feel mildly off — shorter breath on stairs, faster fatigue — but it normalizes quickly.
Middle of the pack. Longmont comes in around 3,354 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
More expensive than average — by enough to plan around. Longmont's composite index is 122 versus 100 for the US, with rent and home prices driving most of the gap. Salaries in higher-paying industries usually move together, but the math still tightens for everyone else.
Yes, by US standards it's extraordinary. Longmont scores 94/100, one of the highest in the country. Transit Score is 39 out of 100. Living here without a car isn't just possible; for many residents it's the default.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $85,085 to live in Longmont the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Longmont runs about $1,689/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.