Colorado divorce by the numbers
Colorado divorce statistics: the rate, the counties, the ages, the money
Every number on this page comes from a public source you can check: the Colorado Judicial Branch, the CDC, the Census Bureau, Pew and Bowling Green’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research. Colorado files about 23,291 divorces a year, the rate has fallen by half since 1990, the median divorcing couple has been married about twelve years, and nearly four in ten divorces now involve someone over 50. Here it is in charts, with a county map.
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23,291 divorce filings in Colorado
Dissolution of marriage petitions filed in district courts, July 2023 to June 2024. Up from 22,972 in FY2022. Source: Colorado Judicial Branch.
2.8 divorces per 1,000 people
Colorado's rate was 5.5 in 1990 and 4.7 in 2000. The U.S. rate is 2.4. Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics.
Median age at first divorce: 43 (men), 41 (women)
Up from 30 and 28 in 1970. Nearly 40 percent of divorces now involve a spouse 50 or older. Source: NCFMR, Bowling Green.
Women initiate about 69 percent
Two-thirds of gray divorces too. Source: Rosenfeld, American Sociological Association, and NCFMR.
Colorado divorces a little more than the country as a whole (2.8 versus 2.4 per 1,000), files about 23,291 cases a year, and follows every national trend: fewer divorces overall, later in life, after longer marriages, and with the house as the biggest asset on the table. El Paso County files the most cases; Denver, Arapahoe, Adams and Jefferson follow.
The Colorado divorce rate, 2000 to 2023
1990: 5.5. Colorado's rate fell 40 percent between 2000 and 2023 while the population grew by about 1.5 million. Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Divorce rates by state, 1990, 1995 and 2000-2023.
Colorado against its neighbors and the country
Rates are provisional counts per 1,000 total population. California, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota and New Mexico did not report in 2023. Source: CDC/NCHS.
Where Colorado divorces are filed: the county map
Dissolution of marriage petitions filed in each county’s district court in FY2024, 23,291 statewide. Circle size is the number of filings; tap a circle for the count.
Source: Colorado Judicial Branch, FY2024 Annual Statistical Report, Table 21, Dissolution of Marriage (DM) filings by court location. Every county page on this site has the court address and filing facts.
Ages, marriage length and gray divorce
Who files, and what it costs
The house in a Colorado divorce
For most Colorado couples the house is the largest asset and the largest debt in the case. Metro Denver’s median single-family price is about $649,500 and the typical loan taken out in 2020 or 2021 carries a rate near 3 percent, which is why the buyout math and the refinance deadline decide more divorces than the law does. What happens to the house, the buyout math, selling during the case, and seven free guides.
Written for women
Most of the people asking are women. The first two weeks, the money, the house.
Start hereWritten for men
Should I move out, will I get 50/50, how much will I pay, can I keep the house.
Start hereGray divorce
Nearly four in ten divorces. The paid-off house, the pension, Social Security.
After 50Your county
The court, the address, the filing facts and the house, for every county we cover.
Find your countySources
- Colorado Judicial Branch, FY2024 Annual Statistical Report, Table 21, District Court Domestic Relations Filings by Case Type.
- CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Divorce rates by state, 1990, 1995, 2000-2023 and FastStats: marriage and divorce.
- Pew Research Center, 8 facts about divorce in the United States (October 2025), from NCHS and the American Community Survey.
- National Center for Family and Marriage Research, Bowling Green State University, Marriage duration at time of gray divorce and the median age at first divorce family profiles.
- Rosenfeld, M. J., Women more likely than men to initiate divorces, American Sociological Association, 2015.
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 five-year estimates, county population and marital status.
Figures are the latest published as of September 2026 and are rounded. Judicial filings count petitions, not final decrees. Nothing here is legal advice.
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