Indian Hills, CO

ZIP code 80454 is assigned to Indian Hills, CO, and falls within Jefferson County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 1,320 people live inside it.

At 262 residents per square mile spread over 5.036 square miles, 80454 reads as a small-town area. It is a sparsely populated postal code, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings here sit well above the national picture. The median household income of $173,125 places 80454 in the upper reaches of American postal codes, ahead of 98% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 80454 costs far above the national median. A typical home is valued at $757,400 against a US median of $207,500. Ownership dominates: 88.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, which usually signals an established residential area with relatively low turnover.

The building stock is dominated by detached single-family houses, which account for 100.0% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1963, making the housing here mid-century. At 4.7%, vacancy is low — housing here is tightly held.

The population skews older than the national median, with a median age of 48.2 against 42 nationally. The average household holds 2.4 people, and 88.7% are family households.

Getting to work takes 23.9 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is worked from home at 45.4% of workers, while 8.8% walk, 45.4% work from home. Commute patterns are one of the better proxies for how a place actually functions day to day.

Beyond addressing mail, 80454 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 80454 offers a compact profile of Indian Hills: 1,320 residents, a median household income of $173,125, 51.4% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 0.0%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 80454 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Indian Hills may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.