ZIP code 80911 and the CDP together hold the market’s largest block of 1950s–70s homes: 37,345 residents, a 1981 median year built, 29.5% of units built before 1970 and 87.2% owner-occupancy. The community grew out of two post-1950 developments, Security Village and Widefield Homes, and in August 2024 El Paso County’s Public Works director blamed its chronic flooding on drainage infrastructure 50 to 100 years old and “sheet flow through the whole area.” The pre-dawn hail of June 13, 2018 hit here too.
Security-Widefield details →Falcon is not a Census place, so this page uses ZIP code 80831 (Falcon/Peyton) figures: 33,912 people, a 2006 median year built, 69.8% of units built in 2000 or later and 92.2% owner-occupancy, the highest in the set. Growth took off in the early 1990s, School District 49 is now the county’s largest (26,649 students, October 2024), and Meridian Ranch’s metro districts, formed in 2000, handle water, wastewater and stormwater. At 6,831 feet on the open plains, wind and hail do more gutter damage than snow.
Falcon details →Founded in 1859 as a rail shipping hub on Fountain Creek, Fountain has 29,300 residents, a 2000 median year built, 51.1% of homes built in 2000 or later, a 5.6% pre-1940 old town and 72.8% owner-occupancy. At 5,558 feet it is the lowest and least snowy page in the set, and the June 13, 2018 pre-dawn storm dropped 3-inch hail here ($169 million, 26,000 claims), the first morning 2-inch-plus hail event on record for El Paso County according to NWS Pueblo. Fort Carson sits next door.
Fountain details →An unincorporated enclave of Colorado Springs governed by El Paso County, Cimarron Hills has 19,817 residents, a 1989 median year built and the densest 1970s–90s housing in the set: 60.7% of units date from those three decades, with 67.9% owner-occupancy. It sits at 6,447 feet north of Peterson Space Force Base, and the July 28, 2016 storm’s hardest-hit area, “northeast of Powers and Stetson Hills boulevards,” lies just north of it, with the airport’s damaged runway and skylights to the south.
Cimarron Hills details →Named for its ponderosa pine stand, Black Forest has 15,738 residents, a 1996 median year built (ZIP 80908 is 2010) and 95.8% owner-occupancy, the highest of any place here. Five-acre minimum zoning dates to 1965, most lots are on well and septic, and the county requires approved grading and drainage plans for septic installations. The Black Forest Fire of June 11, 2013 burned 14,280 acres and 486 homes by the assessor’s count. At 7,369 feet, the Black Forest 6WNW station averages 19.60 inches of precipitation a year.
Black Forest details →At the base of the Rampart Range at 6,982 feet, Monument has 11,735 residents, a 2006 median year built, 75.8% of homes built in 2000 or later and 76.1% owner-occupancy. NOAA’s Monument station averages 121.1 inches of snow, 22.53 inches of precipitation and 59.4 wet days a year (1991–2020), with March (24.2 in.) and April (23.7 in.) the snowiest months, 3.7 times the airport’s snow. In neighboring Woodmoor, the improvement association requires approval for any modification to the exterior of a residence.
Monument details →The one Teller County page: 7,949 residents at 8,481 feet, a 1990 median year built, 56.5% of homes from 1970–99 and 76.5% owner-occupancy. PPRBD provides building services for the city, while unincorporated Teller County (Divide, Florissant) goes through the Teller County Building Division. No NOAA 1991–2020 snow normal exists for the city, but the March 14–15, 2024 storm dropped 17.4 to 36 inches here, and the city was evacuated during the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire. Ice dams and snow slides shape gutter work here.
Woodland Park details →Between the Air Force Academy and Monument along I-25, Gleneagle has 6,440 residents, a 1996 median year built, 62.6% of homes built 1970–99, only 0.4% before 1970 and 80.8% owner-occupancy, at 6,870 feet on the south edge of the Palmer Divide snow belt. The neighboring Northgate and Flying Horse ZIP code 80921 is newer (2005 median year built, 65.3% built 2000 or later). The nearest NOAA stations are Monument 3S (18.08 in. of precipitation) and Monument (121.1 in. of snow).
Gleneagle details →The oldest housing in the set: a 1954 median year built, 39.7% of units built before 1940 and 62.1% before 1970, with 4,735 residents and 61.6% owner-occupancy at 6,306 feet. Founded in 1872 as a health resort, its historic district was listed on the National Register in 1983. On August 9, 2013 a storm over the Waldo Canyon burn scar dropped 1.3 inches in about 30 minutes in Williams Canyon, damaging 20 homes; channel work there was last maintained in June 2025. Steep canyon lots make downspout routing a real design question.
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