Colorado Springs Regional Market
Colorado Springs does not carry its own entry in the North American Top-400 Regional Markets list. In the current dataset, Colorado Springs functions as the metro-core reference point that Pueblo, CO is counted as a suburb of, rather than as a suburban market itself.
Overview
According to Wikipedia (accessed 2026-07-10), Colorado Springs had 478,961 residents at the 2020 census (an estimated 494,743 in 2025) across 195.761 square miles — Colorado's second-most populous city and largest by area — situated approximately 70 miles south of Denver (about an hour by car via I-25) at 6,035 feet elevation near Pikes Peak. The economy is driven primarily by the military, high-tech industry, and tourism: defense contractors and military installations, including Peterson Space Force Base and Fort Carson, account for over 40 percent of regional economic activity. Tourism generated $2.4 billion from 23 million visitors in 2018. Major defense employers include Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin; the city also hosts the U.S. Olympic Training Center. Known as "Olympic City USA," Colorado Springs blends military significance with outdoor recreation and tourism infrastructure.
Regional Market Standing
Colorado Springs does not appear as an entry in the Top 400 Regional Markets — North America list. This is not a data defect: in the current build, Colorado Springs is the metro-core reference point for Pueblo, CO, consistent with the co-location qualification system's own taxonomy excluding metro cores from the suburban-regional qualification band.
See Also
References
- Colorado Springs, Colorado — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-07-10
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