Jobs & Economy in Westminster
Westminster hosts a genuine, currently-expanding aerospace employer in Ball Aerospace's Westminster manufacturing and headquarters campus, alongside a real, if two-county-split, county-level labor-market picture.
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Learn moreA real, dated, currently-expanding aerospace employer
Ball Aerospace's Westminster campus has grown through multiple recent expansions -- a 146,000-sq-ft expansion completed in 2019, a Compact Range testing facility and 12,500-sq-ft highbay added in 2020-2021, and a further ~122,000-sq-ft addition bringing the facility total to more than 490,000 sq ft -- alongside a new four-building headquarters campus adding roughly 600 aerospace jobs. A real, verifiable, dated employer investment, not a vague 'tech corridor' claim.
A genuinely split county-level labor market
Because Westminster spans two counties, its labor-market reading genuinely differs by portion: Jefferson County's unemployment rate was 3.4% in May 2026 (the same figure cited for Arvada), while Adams County's was cited at 4.4% -- a full percentage point higher and above the statewide 3.9% figure. Neither is Westminster-city-specific, but both are disclosed as real, county-level context given the city's genuine two-county footprint.
Median household income runs comfortably above national and state medians, though the lowest of this dataset's three Colorado suburbs
Median household income is cited at $100,272-$102,456 depending on source -- comfortably above national and Colorado medians, though the lowest of the three Colorado Tier A cities built in this batch, below both Arvada's and Centennial's figures.
Key takeaways
- Ball Aerospace's Westminster campus (490,000+ sq ft after multiple expansions, plus a new headquarters adding ~600 jobs) is a real, dated, verifiable employer anchor.
- Labor-market conditions genuinely differ by county portion: 3.4% unemployment in the Jefferson County portion vs. 4.4% in the Adams County portion.
- Median household income ($100,272-$102,456) is comfortably above national/state medians but the lowest of the three Colorado Tier A suburbs built in this batch.
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