Boulder, Colorado Car Insurance

Boulder is the county seat of Boulder County and with about 103,000 people ranks as the ninth biggest city in Colorado. It also serves as the anchor to its own metropolitan area of about 280,000 which are considered separate from the immediately adjacent Denver/Aurora metro area. However, in reality this division is purely imaginary and both of these major metropolitan areas are effectively fused together into one greater metropolitan area today. Boulder is perhaps best known as a liberal bulwark, like Berkeley (California) which is both the home to major university (University of Colorado) as well as a popular destination for hippies, liberal activists, and other left leaning people. Like Berkeley and similar places, despite its extremely left leaning political tendencies, the community is extremely wealthy and expensive compared to neighboring areas.

Like Denver, Boulder has successfully been bringing its accident rate down over recent years though this is in large part do to an excellent mass transit system and bike/walking path network which provides a viable alternative to driving. Further, Boulder ranks as one of the most environmentally conscious cities in the country and represents one of the places in Colorado where not driving is viewed favorably and people actively seek out alternatives. Due to the fact that so many people walk and cycle, Boulder has an inordinately higher level of traffic accidents involving pedestrians (defined as either bicyclists or people on foot). There were 195 accidents involving pedestrians in 2008, up from 137 in 2007.

Despite the popularity of alternative means of transportation in Boulder, a bit more than half of all residents still regularly drive their own vehicles and the city is still part of a major metropolitan area. Both of these factors mean that residents opting to own and operate a motor vehicle will likely pay a higher insurance premium than residents of many other parts of the state. Further, due to the relative affluence of the city, it is generally assumed that people with a Boulder address can afford to pay more and most people have coverage well above the legally required minimum liability coverage.

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