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About Rifle
City in Colorado, United StatesRifle is a home-rule municipality in, and the most populous community of, Garfield County, Colorado, United States. Its population was 10,437 at the 2020 census. Rifle is a regional center of the cattle-ranching industry located along Interstate 70 and the Colorado River just east of the Roan Plateau, which dominates the western skyline of the town. The town was founded in 1882 by Abram Maxfield, and was incorporated in 1905 along Rifle Creek, near its mouth on the Colorado. The community takes its name from the creek.
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Housing in Rifle
The typical Rifle home is worth about $502,000, up 4.1% in a year, 6% below the Colorado typical home.
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Safety in Rifle
Safety Grade C+
Rifle reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 60% report less.
Schools in Rifle
All Rifle schools →School Grade B-
The public schools Rifle’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 50% of Colorado’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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