Dacono is a somewhat small city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 6,488 people and two associated neighborhoods, Dacono is the 78th largest community in Colorado. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Dacono, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Dacono, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Dacono’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Dacono does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $94,783.00.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Dacono is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dacono is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dacono who work in office and administrative support (12.48%), healthcare (7.90%), and management occupations (7.72%). Also of interest is that Dacono has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.13% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. In Dacono, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.13 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small city, Dacono does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Dacono is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.38% of adults in Dacono have a college degree. The per capita income in Dacono in 2022 was $37,467, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,868 for a family of four. However, Dacono contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dacono is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dacono home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dacono residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Dacono also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.47% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dacono include German, English, Irish, European, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Dacono is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
