Sales tax in Colorado
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The Colorado state sales tax rate is 2.9%. Cities, counties and districts add their own on top, so the combined rate depends on where in Colorado you are.
State rate from Colorado jurisdiction codes and rates, checked Sep 4, 2026.
What a $100.00 purchase costs in tax across Colorado
General merchandise. Prepared food, lodging and other categories can be taxed differently, and a tilde marks a figure estimated from ZIP-code data rather than a verified rate for one address.
- State rate only (2.9%)
- $2.90
- Verified
- Most common combined rate (~2.9%)
- ~$2.90
- Estimated
- Highest combined rate (~11.2%)
- ~$11.20
- Estimated
What makes up a sales tax rate in Colorado
- The state's share: 2.9%. Levied on every taxable sale in Colorado, wherever it happens.
- Local shares: nothing to ~8.3% on top. Counties, cities and special districts each add their own, and a seller collects them together. 280 cities in Colorado have their own pages with a figure below.
- Your exact address decides. A ZIP code is a postal route and was never drawn to follow tax boundaries, so two addresses sharing one can owe different totals. The calculator narrows it down from your ZIP code.
How combined rates are spread across Colorado
Number of Colorado ZIP codes at each combined general sales tax rate. Figures are estimates: a ZIP code that crosses a tax boundary is counted at its most likely rate.
| Combined rate | ZIP codes | Share of the state |
|---|---|---|
| ~0% | 3 | |
| ~2.9% | 263 | |
| ~3.9% | 9 | |
| ~4% | 2 | |
| ~4.4% | 3 | |
| ~4.9% | 13 | |
| ~5% | 5 | |
| ~5.27% | 1 | |
| ~5.335% | 1 | |
| ~5.4% | 6 | |
| ~5.9% | 14 | |
| ~6.335% | 1 | |
| ~6.4% | 2 | |
| ~6.5% | 5 | |
| ~6.65% | 1 | |
| ~6.75% | 1 | |
| ~6.9% | 17 | |
| ~6.95% | 1 | |
| ~7% | 5 | |
| ~7.13% | 1 | |
| ~7.2% | 2 | |
| ~7.27% | 3 | |
| ~7.3% | 2 | |
| ~7.335% | 1 | |
| ~7.4% | 5 | |
| ~7.45% | 1 | |
| ~7.5% | 3 | |
| ~7.53% | 3 | |
| ~7.6% | 8 | |
| ~7.63% | 3 | |
| ~7.65% | 2 | |
| ~7.69% | 1 | |
| ~7.8125% | 1 | |
| ~7.9% | 18 | |
| ~8% | 10 | |
| ~8.05% | 1 | |
| ~8.1% | 5 | |
| ~8.13% | 2 | |
| ~8.15% | 1 | |
| ~8.2% | 32 | |
| ~8.21% | 5 | |
| ~8.25% | 2 | |
| ~8.27% | 1 | |
| ~8.3% | 7 | |
| ~8.375% | 2 | |
| ~8.4% | 12 | |
| ~8.45% | 1 | |
| ~8.5% | 11 | |
| ~8.53% | 2 | |
| ~8.65% | 4 | |
| ~8.66% | 6 | |
| ~8.7% | 1 | |
| ~8.75% | 10 | |
| ~8.8% | 1 | |
| ~8.835% | 1 | |
| ~8.865% | 2 | |
| ~8.875% | 2 | |
| ~8.9% | 12 | |
| ~8.95% | 4 | |
| ~8.97% | 1 | |
| ~9% | 6 | |
| ~9.03% | 3 | |
| ~9.05% | 1 | |
| ~9.11% | 3 | |
| ~9.15% | 41 | |
| ~9.195% | 6 | |
| ~9.2% | 1 | |
| ~9.335% | 2 | |
| ~9.35% | 1 | |
| ~9.4% | 5 | |
| ~9.45% | 1 | |
| ~9.47% | 1 | |
| ~9.5% | 4 | |
| ~9.585% | 1 | |
| ~9.69% | 4 | |
| ~9.75% | 6 | |
| ~9.9% | 3 | |
| ~10.05% | 2 | |
| ~10.35% | 1 | |
| ~10.4% | 1 | |
| ~10.55% | 4 | |
| ~11.2% | 2 |
Sales tax by city in Colorado
280 cities with a published or estimated rate. A tilde marks an estimate; the figure shown is the highest an address in that city is estimated to pay.
Cities covering the most ZIP codes
- Denver~9.75% · 41 ZIP codes
- Colorado Springs~9.03% · 29 ZIP codes
- Aurora~9.15% · 16 ZIP codes
- Lakewood~9.15% · 11 ZIP codes
- Arvada~9.15% · 9 ZIP codes
- Thornton~9.75% · 9 ZIP codes
- Aurora~9.15% · 8 ZIP codes
- Westminster~9.15% · 8 ZIP codes
Highest combined rates
- Fraser~11.2%
- Winter Park~11.2%
- Basalt~10.55%
- Basalt~10.55%
- Carbondale~10.55%
All 280 cities, A to Z
A 13 cities
B 20 cities
- Basalt~10.55%
- Basalt~10.55%
- Bayfield~9.9%
- Bennett~8.5%
- Bennett~8.5%
- Berthoud~8.95%
- Berthoud~8.95%
- Bethune~2.9%
- Black Hawk~8.9%
- Blanca~7.9%
- Boone~3.9%
- Boulder~9.335%
- Branson~4.4%
- Breckenridge~8.875%
- Brighton~9.75%
- Brighton~9.75%
- Brookside~8.7%
- Brush~6.9%
- Buena Vista~8.15%
- Burlington~5.9%
C 24 cities
- Calhan~8.13%
- Canon City~8.7%
- Carbondale~10.55%
- Castle Pines~8.1%
- Castle Rock~8.1%
- Cedaredge~8.5%
- Centennial~8.75%
- Center~9.5%
- Center~9.5%
- Cheraw~8.9%
- Cheyenne Wells~4.9%
- Clifton~8.66%
- Coal Creek~7.9%
- Cokedale~8.4%
- Collbran~7.27%
- Colorado Springs~9.03%
- Commerce City~9.75%
- Cortez~7.69%
- Craig~8.9%
- Crawford~8.5%
- Crestone~8.9%
- Cripple Creek~7.2%
- Crook~6.4%
- Crowley~4.9%
D 12 cities
E 12 cities
F 17 cities
- Federal Heights~9%
- Firestone~8.865%
- Flagler~4.9%
- Fleming~5.9%
- Florence~7.9%
- Florissant~7.2%
- Florissant~7.2%
- Fort Collins~8.3%
- Fort Lupton~9.75%
- Fort Morgan~7.9%
- Fountain~8.2%
- Fowler~6.9%
- Foxfield~8.75%
- Fraser~11.2%
- Frederick~8.865%
- Frisco~8.375%
- Fruita~8.66%
G 16 cities
- Genoa~4.9%
- Georgetown~10.05%
- Gilcrest~8.4%
- Glendale~9.15%
- Glenwood Springs~9.35%
- Golden~8.25%
- Granada~5.9%
- Granby~8.2%
- Grand Junction~8.66%
- Grand Lake~9.2%
- Greeley~8.95%
- Green Mtn Falls~8.13%
- Green Mtn Falls~8.13%
- Grover~3.9%
- Gunnison~8.9%
- Gypsum~9.4%
H 13 cities
I 3 cities
- Idaho Springs~10.55%
- Ignacio~8.9%
- Iliff~3.9%
K 7 cities
- Keenesburg~8.75%
- Kersey~8.4%
- Keystone~8.875%
- Kim~4.4%
- Kiowa~5.4%
- Kit Carson~4.9%
- Kremmling~8.2%
L 25 cities
- La Jara~7.9%
- La Junta~8.9%
- La Salle~8.4%
- La Veta~9.9%
- Lafayette~9.11%
- Lake City~9.15%
- Lakeside~9.15%
- Lakewood~9.15%
- Lamar~6.9%
- Larkspur~7.9%
- Las Animas~7.9%
- Leadville~7.4%
- Limon~7.65%
- Littleton~9.15%
- Littleton~8.75%
- Lochbuie~9.75%
- Lochbuie~9.75%
- Log Lane Village~7.9%
- Lone Tree~8.75%
- Longmont~8.865%
- Longmont~9.335%
- Louisville~9.195%
- Louviers~5%
- Loveland~8.95%
- Lyons~9.335%
M 17 cities
- Manassa~5.9%
- Mancos~7.3%
- Manitou Springs~9.03%
- Manzanola~5.9%
- Mead~8.95%
- Meeker~6.5%
- Merino~5.9%
- Milliken~8.95%
- Minturn~9.69%
- Moffat~7.4%
- Monte Vista~8.5%
- Montrose~8.53%
- Monument~8.2%
- Morrison~8.25%
- Mountain View~9.15%
- Mountain Village~9.47%
- Mt Crested Butte~9.9%
N 8 cities
- Naturita~8.65%
- Nederland~9.585%
- New Castle~9.35%
- Niwot~9.335%
- Northglenn~9.75%
- Norwood~6.9%
- Nucla~8.65%
- Nunn~4.9%
O 9 cities
- Oak Creek~6.9%
- Olathe~8.65%
- Olney Springs~4.9%
- Ophir~5.9%
- Orchard City~6.5%
- Ordway~6.9%
- Otis~6.4%
- Ouray~9.45%
- Ovid~6.9%
P 15 cities
- Pagosa Springs~7.9%
- Palisade~7.27%
- Palmer Lake~7.63%
- Paoli~7.4%
- Paonia~9.5%
- Parachute~7.9%
- Parker~8.75%
- Peetz~3.9%
- Pierce~4.9%
- Pitkin~6.9%
- Platteville~8.865%
- Poncha Springs~8.65%
- Pritchett~2.9%
- Pueblo~7.6%
- Pueblo West~7.6%
R 11 cities
S 25 cities
- Saguache~9.4%
- Salida~8.65%
- San Luis~8.9%
- Sanford~6.9%
- Sedalia~4%
- Sedgwick~6.9%
- Seibert~4.9%
- Severance~8.3%
- Sheridan~9.15%
- Sheridan Lake~2.9%
- Silt~8.45%
- Silver Cliff~7.9%
- Silver Plume~10.05%
- Silverthorne~8.875%
- Silverton~10.4%
- Simla~7.9%
- Somerset~3.9%
- South Fork~9.5%
- Springfield~4.9%
- Starkville~8.4%
- Steamboat Springs~8.4%
- Sterling~7%
- Stratton~4.9%
- Sugar City~4.9%
- Swink~8.9%
W 17 cities
- Walden~7.9%
- Walsenburg~8.9%
- Walsh~5.9%
- Ward~9.585%
- Wellington~6.95%
- Westcliffe~7.9%
- Westminster~9.11%
- Westminster~9.15%
- Wheat Ridge~9.15%
- Wiggins~5.9%
- Wiley~5.9%
- Windsor~8.4%
- Windsor~8.3%
- Winter Park~11.2%
- Woodland Park~8.4%
- Woodland Park~8.4%
- Wray~5.4%
Why most Colorado figures are estimates
Of 644 ZIP codes in Colorado, 0 resolve to a single verified rate for every address inside them. The rest carry an estimate with its range, and the calculator will ask for more than a ZIP code where it needs to.
- 643 Some local taxes in this state are not yet mapped, so the real rate may be higher. 167 of the 447 Colorado cities we hold are not yet placed on a ZIP code, so an estimate can miss a city's share. It errs low, not high.
- 1 This ZIP code crosses a tax boundary, so the rate depends on the street address.
A ZIP code is a mail route, not a tax boundary. Where one crosses a city or district line, the rate depends on the street address, and no lookup by ZIP code alone can settle it. Enter your ZIP code in the calculator for the closest figure we hold.
Why you can rely on these figures
- Published rates
- State and local rates compiled from the tax authorities that levy them.
- Every figure sourced
- See the jurisdiction breakdown and the document each rate came from.
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- Missing means missing
- Where a rate is not verified we say so instead of showing a short total.
TaxAndTips provides informational estimates from published tax-rate data. Actual tax treatment can depend on the product or service, the exact address, the transaction, exemption status and applicable law. For official obligations, consult the taxing authority or a qualified tax professional.