Louisville
About Louisville, CO
Louisville, Colorado, ranked by Money magazine and others as one of the best places in the nation to live, is located at 5,350 feet above sea level and is ideally situated along the Denver-Boulder Turnpike and northwest of the Northwest Parkway.
The former mining town, incorporated 1882 and named for landowner Louis Nawatny, saw its population grew to 3,200 at the height of the 1900-1910 coal-mining boom before dropping off to about 1,200. The town didn’t grow back to 3,200 residents until the 1970s. Louisville began growing rapidly in the 1980s and ‘90s, with its population growing to about 19,000 today.
The downtown area is well into a revival with Main Street boasting a vibrant restaurant scene, offering everything from the Italian cuisine of the Blue Parrot, regional American cuisine at the Empire, self-described “funky country” at the Huckleberry and traditional Irish fare at the Old Louisville Inn. The Steinbaugh Pavilion downtown, home to the Louisville Street Faire, Winter Skate and other events, is named after the Steinbaugh family, whose patriarch John Jacob Steinbaugh set up as a blacksmith in Louisville in 1892. The Steinbaughs ran a hardware store in town until 1997.
Louisville is home to major retailers, such as Home Depot, Lowes, Kohl’s and Sam’s Club, as well as grocers King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons. Among the most notable major commercial businesses in town is ConocoPhilips, which recently purchased the former Sun and Storage Technology Corp. that it plans to develop into a major research and training center.
Despite its growth and development, Louisville maintains its small town charm through events such as the annual Taste of Louisville, Fourth of July Community Picnic and fireworks, Labor Day Parade and Fall Festival.
- Old Town
- Enclave
- Harper Lake
- Dutch Creek
- McCaslin/US 36 area
- Main Street/Downtown
- Louisville Recreation Center
- Memory Square Pool
- Coal Creek Golf Course
Population: 18,937
Population density: 2,223.6/sq mi
Median Household Income: $69,945
Avg. household size: 2.62
Age distribution:
- 15.4% are under 10
- 15% between 10-19
- 11.2% in their 20s
- 18.1% in their 30s
- 22.7% in their 40s
- 9.6% in their 50s
- 4.3% in their 60s
- 3.8% are over 70
Median age: 33
Relationship status:
- 59.9% married
- 26.6% single
- 9.9% divorced
- 3.6% widowed
Percent single: 14.6% of population are single males, 11.9% of population are single females
Homes with children: 37.4% have kids
Home Type:
- 89% single-family
- 8.6% condo
- 2.4% other
Owners v. Renters: 76.1% own; 23.9% rent
Avg. single-family home value:
- 1 BD – $277,000
- 2 BD – $279,000
- 3 BD – $332,000
- 4BD – $411,000
Avg. condo value:
- 1 BD – $150,000
- 2 BD – $184,000
- 3 BD – $178,000
- 4BD – N/A
Home size in Sq. Ft.:
- 1,000 or less – 13.2%
- 1,000-1,400 – 23.4%
- 1,400-1,800 – 20.8%
- 2,300-2,800 – 25%
- 2,800-3,600 – 14.3%
- more than 3,600 – 3.2%
Median home size: 1,684 sq. ft.
Year built:
- 2000-present – 2.3%
- 1980-1999 – 68.9%
- 1960-1979 – 19.7%
- 1940-1959 – 2.4%
- 1920-1939 – 1.6%
- 1900-1919 – 4.6%
- before 1900 – 0.5%
Avg. year built: 1984
Commute time:
- 12.1% – 10 min. or less
- 36% – 10-20 min.
- 28.1% – 20-30 min.
- 10.9% – 30-45 min.
- 8.9% – 45-60 min.
- 4% – more than 60 min.
Avg. Commute time: 23.598 min.
- July is on average the warmest month, with an average high temperature of 88 degrees.
- January is on average the coldest month, with an average high temperature of 44 degrees, and an average low of 16 degrees.
- May is on average the wettest month, with an average of about 2.25 inches of precipitation.
- The highest temperature on record was 108°F in 2005.
- The lowest temperature on record was -24°F in 1990.
