2025 Compare Cities Cost of Living:
Canon City, CO vs Thornton, CO

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Is it cheaper to live in Thornton or is it cheaper to live in Canon City?
- Thornton is 33.3% more expensive than Canon City.

Which city has more affordable housing, Thornton or Canon City?
- Thornton housing costs are 79.9% more expensive than Canon City housing costs.

Is Health Care more affordable in Canon City or is Health Care more affordable in Thornton.
- Health related expenses are 6.2% less in Thornton.
 Canon City, COThornton, COUnited States
 Overall  Unlock121.3100
 Food & Groceries100.6  Unlock100
 Health  Unlock85.0100
 Housing89.1  Unlock100
 Median Home Cost  Unlock$504,900$338,100
 Utilities98  Unlock100
 Transportation  Unlock121.4100
 Miscellaneous105.9  Unlock100
100 = National Average (Below 100 means cheaper than the US average. Above 100 means more expensive.)
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Reviews for Canon City    9 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

While most of the rest of the front range of Colorado has seen very large housing price increases over the last 4 years, the same cannot be said of Canon City. In  More

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I'm looking to relocate there and wondering how the schools are? I have two children, one in elementary and one in high school, so looking for decent schools for  More

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Over 14 years ago

Anyone with firsthand stories of canon city corruption go to facebook and do a search for CanonCityColoradoCorruption and tell your story. God save the good people of  More

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Reviews for Thornton    5 Reviews

Good place. Very suburbany (similar to the Springs). The houses are very small and old and yet still very expensive (albeit cheaper than southern Denver). Actually lots  More

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Over 5 years ago

I like Denver metro, but some cities aren’t too great. Thornton being one of them. Moved here because of highway access, and convenience to DIA for business travel. Am  More

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Over 10 years ago

The quality of life here in not good. The traffic is bad all the time. To try to get to the mountains takes forever! Also most lakes along the front range you can't even  More

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