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Absentee owners in Fort Collins, CO
Bottom line: 21,284 homes in Fort Collins, CO send their tax bill to an address other than the property (35% of those with a mailing address on file), and 2,909 send it out of state. Absentee does not mean distressed: second homes, rentals and trusts all mail elsewhere.
Free beta 21,284 matches · read October 16, 2026
What this counts
Absentee owners, in plain words
An absentee owner here is a parcel whose county tax bill goes to a different street address than the property itself.
Source: shinnslist (county records), read October 16, 2026. How the counts are made and graded: How we grade. Nothing here predicts that an owner will sell. These are counts of public county records.
The town
Fort Collins in the county records
| Parcels in the hunt | 60,889 parcels the county files as homes or residential land in Fort Collins. |
|---|---|
| Tax bill mailed elsewhere | 21,284 of the 60,888 with a mailing address on file (35%) send the tax bill to an address other than the property. |
| Mailed out of state | 2,909 (5%) send it outside Colorado. |
| Years since the last sale | Median 11.7 years, from 58,205 parcels with a recorded sale: under 5 years 12,636, 5 to 9 12,715, 10 to 19 15,438, 20 or more 17,416. |
| Property types | As the county labels them: Residential 60,013; Agricultural 519; Multiple Unit 231; Commercial 61; Mobile Home 49; Partial Exempt 15. |
Questions
Absentee owners in Fort Collins, answered
How many absentee owners are in Fort Collins?
21,284 homes mail the tax bill elsewhere, read October 16, 2026.
How is absentee measured?
The street line of the mailing address on the county record is compared with the property address. A different street means the bill goes elsewhere.
Is an absentee owner a motivated seller?
Not by itself. Many are second homes or long-term rentals. Nothing here predicts a sale.