Boulder: History, Real Estate, and Links
Population: ca. 103,000, with projected top-out ca. 2030 of about 118,500.
Climate:
semi-arid. Not too hot, not too cold, and lots of sunshine.
Altitude: 5,400'
Public Schools: got 'em, and the Boulder Valley
School District is very, very good.
We are in a valley at the edge of the foothills of the Rockies, and if you are downtown, you are
about 2.3 miles from the summit of Green Mountain (8,100') and about 23 miles from the summit of Longs Peak (14,255'), in Rocky Mountain
National Park. Lots of the fun stuff is uphill.
Mining was the reason for Boulder's start in 1859, but the founding in 1874 of the
University of Colorado certainly guaranteed its future. Even so, growth was slow until the late '40s (1940: 12,959; 1950: 19,999;
1960: 37,718; 1970: 66,870.
Some, but not all, of the largest local employers have contributed to the city's science/technology character:
University of Colorado, IBM, Ball Aerospace, the Department of Commerce (NIST and NOAA) and the University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research make up five of the top ten.
More on Boulder's history here:, and the 2008 Community Data Report there:
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Year-to-year sale comparison: Houses, May 15-31, 2007 and May 15-31, 2008: | ||||
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Number
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Median |
Average Days on Market |
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2007 |
77 |
692,992 |
530,000 |
81 |
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2008 |
52 |
674,015 |
530,000 |
110 |
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