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Absentee owners in Boulder, CO
Bottom line: 16,605 homes in Boulder, CO send their tax bill to an address other than the property (45% of those with a mailing address on file), and 2,600 send it out of state. Absentee does not mean distressed: second homes, rentals and trusts all mail elsewhere.
Free beta 16,605 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
Boulder in the county records
| Parcels in the hunt | 39,252 parcels the county files as homes or residential land in Boulder. |
|---|---|
| Tax bill mailed elsewhere | 16,605 of the 36,700 with a mailing address on file (45%) send the tax bill to an address other than the property. |
| Mailed out of state | 2,600 (7%) send it outside Colorado. |
| Years since the last sale | Median 14 years, from 37,974 parcels with a recorded sale: under 5 years 7,084, 5 to 9 6,974, 10 to 19 9,482, 20 or more 14,434. |
Questions
Absentee owners in Boulder, answered
How many absentee owners are in Boulder?
16,605 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.