Empire vs Upper Bear Creek

A side-by-side comparison of Empire and Upper Bear Creek: population, income, housing, and more.

Empire and Upper Bear Creek are places in Colorado. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Upper Bear Creek has the higher population (980 vs 549 in Empire). Upper Bear Creek has the higher median household income ($185,574 vs $63,092 in Empire). Upper Bear Creek has the higher median home value ($1,026,900 vs $297,600 in Empire).

Population, income & housing

	Empire	Upper Bear Creek
Population	549	980
Median age	44.5 yrs	60.3 yrs
Median household income	$63,092	$185,574
Median home value	$297,600	$1,026,900
Median gross rent	$1,566	—
Housing units	327	534
Homeownership rate	59.0%	87.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.4%	63.6%
Unemployment rate	4.4%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Empire	Upper Bear Creek
Population	303 → 549 (+81.2%)	925 → 980 (+5.9%)
Median household income	$46,250 → $63,092 (+36.4%)	$116,536 → $185,574 (+59.2%)
Median home value	$223,400 → $297,600 (+33.2%)	$630,900 → $1,026,900 (+62.8%)
Median gross rent	$667 → $1,566 (+134.8%)	—

Empire

Population

303549

Median household income

$46,250$63,092

Median home value

$223,400$297,600

Median gross rent

$667$1,566

Upper Bear Creek

Population

925980

Median household income

$116,536$185,574

Median home value

$630,900$1,026,900

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Empire	Upper Bear Creek
Under 5	0.4%	2.1%
5 to 17	14.0%	7.2%
18 to 24	3.6%	5.9%
25 to 34	15.5%	4.5%
35 to 44	22.4%	3.0%
45 to 54	11.7%	20.8%
55 to 64	15.5%	20.1%
65 to 74	14.8%	16.7%
75 and over	2.2%	19.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Empire	Upper Bear Creek
White (non-Hispanic)	88.3%	93.5%
Black or African American	0.5%	2.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.4%	1.6%
Asian	0.4%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.9%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	7.3%	0.4%
Hispanic or Latino	3.1%	1.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Empire	Upper Bear Creek
No high school diploma	18.2%	2.4%
High school graduate	28.7%	18.3%
Some college or associate's	34.7%	15.7%
Bachelor's degree	14.0%	29.0%
Graduate or professional degree	4.4%	34.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Empire	Upper Bear Creek
Drove alone	64.3%	62.3%
Carpooled	7.2%	4.5%
Public transit	6.9%	0.0%
Walked	20.4%	4.8%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	1.3%	28.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Empire	Upper Bear Creek
1-unit, detached	55.4%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	1.5%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	23.9%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	19.3%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Empire	Upper Bear Creek
Poverty rate	12.9%	1.0%
Average household size	1.80	1.84
Mean commute (minutes)	21	22
Median year structure built	1972	1990