Home Business in Colorado (2026)

Pueblo allows a home-based business only as a conditional use run by residents themselves, capped at 25% of the home's…

Arapahoe County allows home occupations as an accessory use on unincorporated residential land without a separate…

Aurora, Colorado allows home occupations in dwellings only if the business stays incidental, invisible from outside…

A home occupation is allowed by right anywhere in Boulder if it stays inside the dwelling, is run only by residents…

The Boulder County Land Use Code lets a home occupation operate as an accessory use to a residence, provided it stays…

Castle Rock caps a home occupation at the occupants plus not more than one nonresident employee, limits the business to…

Centennial permits home-based businesses inside a residence as an accessory use under LDC Section 12-2-404, but bans…

Colorado Springs requires a Home Occupation Permit under City Code Section 7.5.507 only when the business has customers…

Denver caps home occupations at 20% of a dwelling's floor area (300 sq ft max) and requires the operator to live…

Unincorporated Douglas County allows home businesses as a Class 1 or Class 2 home occupation, capped at 50% of the…

El Paso County splits home businesses into residential and rural home occupations, each with its own standards, and…

Fort Collins lets residents run a home occupation only inside the dwelling, with no more than one outside employee…

Fountain, Colorado allows home-based businesses in residential districts, but every one must occupy less than 35…

Greeley allows a home occupation as an accessory use to any residential dwelling citywide, but only dwelling residents…

A Jefferson County home occupation requires a Miscellaneous Permit from Planning & Zoning. It is limited to one…

Lakewood zones minor home businesses (up to 25% of floor area) as an accessory use with resident/employee caps, while…

A Limited home occupation in unincorporated Larimer County is a use by right; a registration certificate is encouraged…

Littleton permits home occupations in dwellings citywide, but caps total home-business floor area at 20 percent of the…

Longmont caps home occupations at 50 percent of a dwelling's gross floor area if no customers visit, or just 15 percent…

Loveland's UDC allows a home business only as a use incidental to the residential use, capped at 25 percent of the…

Before operating almost any business from a Manitou Springs home, the operator needs a Home Occupation Permit, must…

Mesa County requires Site Plan review for home occupations, allowed as an accessory use in any dwelling that meets…

In unincorporated Weld County, a home business is an accessory use allowed in Agricultural, Estate, and Residential…

Westminster allows home occupations in any dwelling unit, in any zoning district, but caps the use at 20 percent of the…

Arvada allows a home occupation only as an accessory use to an actual residential dwelling, and flatly bans twelve…

Home occupations in unincorporated Arapahoe County get no signage at all. LDC § 3-3.12.A.2 flatly requires that there…

Home occupations in Boulder cannot advertise from the property at all. Subparagraph 9-6-3(o)(1)(A)(iv) bars any change…

Centennial bars home-based businesses from posting or installing any sign to advertise the business: a business run…

Douglas County bans exterior advertising for any home occupation, Class 1 or Class 2. Section 1-2303(5) and its Class 2…

Greeley bars any exterior change for a home occupation that alters a house's residential look, naming signs…

Loveland bars any exterior sign or exterior alteration that would reveal a home occupation is operating, with one…

Home occupations in unincorporated El Paso County cannot advertise with any sign visible from outside the dwelling, and…

Littleton bars any outdoor display or storage of goods, materials, merchandise, equipment, or signage related to a home…

Longmont bars any advertising, display or other outward sign of a home occupation, so a home-based business operating…

A Westminster home occupation may display only one sign, and it must be unanimated, non-illuminated, flat against a…

A home occupation in unincorporated Boulder County may display only a small identification sign. The Land Use Code…

Castle Rock prohibits advertising signs and displays for home occupations. Under Municipal Code 17.52.230, there may be…

Colorado Springs allows a home occupation only one sign - identifying the home occupation, no larger than two (2)…

A Fort Collins home occupation cannot post any exterior advertising beyond the single residential sign Section…

A licensed home-based business in Fountain gets one exempt on-premise sign under Fountain Municipal Code §…

Signage for a Jefferson County home occupation must comply with the Sign Section of the county Zoning Resolution. The…

Lakewood limits a home business to one wall sign, 6 square feet for a minor home business, 25 square feet for a major…

A home occupation in unincorporated Larimer County may have one sign, maximum 4 square feet per face and six feet in…

Home-based businesses in unincorporated Mesa County are capped at 2 square feet of signage under Table 6-4 of the…

A permitted home occupation in Manitou Springs may display exactly one wall or hanging sign on the primary structure…

A home occupation in unincorporated Arapahoe County can't generate traffic that changes the neighborhood's residential…

Aurora, Colorado limits home occupations to invited visitors only and bars traffic beyond what a residential street…

Running a Boulder home occupation without walk-in customers is the rule: Subparagraph 9-6-3(o)(1)(A)(v) bars on-site…

Centennial limits home-based professional services, instruction, or counseling to no more than four clients on-site at…

A Colorado Springs home occupation permit for massage therapy comes with its own scheduling rule: UDC Subsection…

Denver requires several home-based businesses, limited retail/repair services, non-medical offices, and professional…

Douglas County limits how much traffic a home occupation can generate. Both Class 1 and Class 2 rules state that…

El Paso County caps home-occupation client visits at 3 people at a time and requires at least 2 onsite parking spaces…

Fort Collins limits home occupation client and customer visits to 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday…

A Fountain, Colorado home-based business cannot generate more than 20 vehicle trips a day, counting every arrival and…

Greeley limits home occupations to one customer vehicle on site at a time and no more than ten client visits per week…

Littleton limits any home occupation to no more than two vehicles parked at the property at one time as a result of the…

A Longmont home occupation that serves the public on-site is capped at 15 percent of the dwelling's floor area and…

Loveland caps how many clients a home occupation can see at once: a minor home occupation may serve only one client or…

A Manitou Springs home occupation can see customers only between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., a fixed curfew written into…

Permitted home occupations in Mesa County can host up to 12 customers a day between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Monday through…

Weld County caps how many customers a home business can host at once: five in Residential zones, ten in Agricultural…

Westminster requires a home-based business to stay invisible from the street. Section 11-4-10(B) bars a separate…

Colorado lets you bake, jar and dehydrate for sale out of your own kitchen with no license, no plan review and no…

Under the Colorado Cottage Foods Act (CRS 25-4-1614), Castle Rock residents can sell non-potentially-hazardous foods…

Colorado's Cottage Foods Act lets Douglas County residents sell certain non-hazardous homemade foods directly to…

Colorado Cottage Foods Act CRS 25-4-1614 allows producers in unincorporated Arapahoe County to sell up to $10,000 per…

Aurora follows Colorado's Cottage Foods Act (CRS 25-4-1614), allowing home producers to sell up to $10,000 per product…

El Paso County follows the Colorado Cottage Foods Act (C.R.S. §25-4-1614). Non-potentially hazardous homemade foods may…

Colorado has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no exemption that lets you cook meals to order at home for the…

Colorado requires state licensing for any home caring for more than a small number of unrelated children, with uniform…

A licensed 'day care home' is a permitted home occupation in unincorporated Arapahoe County under LDC § 3-3.12.B.1…

Arvada allows licensed family child care homes and specialized group homes inside any dwelling unit as a home child…

Aurora's zoning code allows in-home day care for children from birth to 16 as an accessory use in residential zone…

A family child care home is treated as a residential use for zoning, so it is generally allowed in unincorporated…

Centennial permits family child care homes in residential districts under LDC Section 12-2-405, but requires state…

Colorado Springs permits in-home adult or child day care as an accessory use in any dwelling under UDC § 7.3.304.H…

Denver allows small home daycares (up to 6 children) as a home occupation, but large child care homes (7 to 12…

Unincorporated Douglas County lets a small home daycare, up to six children (nine with a state license), operate as an…

El Paso County keeps family care homes and child care centers at least 500 feet apart along the same road, unless the…

A child care center approved to operate inside a Fort Collins residential dwelling loses that zoning approval if it…

Fountain, Colorado limits a home-based daycare to six children at a time and requires Colorado Department of Human…

Greeley treats licensed in-home child care as a 'child care home' accessory use capped at 12 children, run as a home…

Jefferson County's Zoning Resolution recognizes two home day-care uses. A Day-Care Home, Small cares for up to 6…

Lakewood's Zoning Ordinance allows home child or adult day care as an accessory use if state-licensed, caps adult day…

Littleton permits a Family Child Care Home only in a single-family detached or attached dwelling, requires the operator…

Longmont allows residential day care as a permitted accessory use in every zoning district that allows household…

Pueblo requires a Conditional Use Permit for a licensed home child care business, plus a state Home Child Care permit…

Weld County's zoning code defines a Family Child Care Home in Sec. 23-1-90 but never lists it in any zone district's…

Westminster zoning treats a licensed home daycare as a 'family care home,' defined as a state-licensed facility inside…

Loveland allows licensed family child care homes in any dwelling unit without a zoning permit, so long as the required…

A family child care home for two to six children is exempt from Manitou Springs' Home Occupation permit and standards…