Best PlacesFort Lupton, CO Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Fort Lupton, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Fort Lupton ranks 28,763rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cell coverage by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Fort Lupton
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Fort Lupton's strengths and weaknesses
Where Fort Lupton ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 96% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 153 pleasant days a year, better than 93% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 92% of towns
- BikingBetter than 91% of towns
Where Fort Lupton ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 1% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,429 a month, better than only 5% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 7% of towns
- School gradeD, better than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Fort Lupton
A household needs to earn about $118,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Fort Lupton home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $86,584, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Fort Lupton's effective rate of 0.44%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Fort Lupton
Fort Lupton runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Fort Lupton.
Who works in Fort Lupton, and how
Work in Fort Lupton centers on retail trade and construction. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Fort Lupton
Fort Lupton has more restaurants and bars per resident than 68% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Fort Lupton and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Fort Lupton, month by month
Fort Lupton sees roughly 153 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 16. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 28° | 16° |
| April | 65° | 48° | 34° |
| July | 91° | 74° | 58° |
| October | 68° | 50° | 35° |
Flying in and out of Fort Lupton
Denver International sits about 17 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 40.1 million passengers in 2025, with 250 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Fort Lupton
Schools across Fort Lupton average a D, better than 8% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Kenneth Homyak Pk-8C+ · 39% proficient
- Legacy Elementary SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Mary E Pennock Elementary SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top middle schools
- Coal Ridge Middle SchoolC · 31% proficient
- Prairie View Middle SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- Weld Central Middle SchoolD− · 14% proficient
Top high schools
- Frederick Senior High SchoolC · 31% proficient
- Brighton High SchoolC− · 28% proficient
- Weld Central Senior High SchoolD · 23% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Fort Lupton school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Fort Lupton measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Fort Lupton against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Fort Lupton
Is Fort Lupton a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Fort Lupton ranks 28,763rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, few empty homes, and the weather, and lowest on air quality and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Fort Lupton expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $476,557. The overall cost of living runs about 5% above the national average. Set against a $86,584 median income, cost of living beats 46% of towns.
Is Fort Lupton safe?
Fort Lupton is safer than 24% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,084 per resident a year.
Compare Fort Lupton with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Fort Lupton. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Fort Lupton represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Fort Lupton detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Fort Lupton: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Fort Lupton: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Fort Lupton: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Fort Lupton: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Fort Lupton detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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