Broomfield is both a city and a county at the same time

If you live in Broomfield, your city and your county are the same government. That is unusual in Colorado. Most places sit inside a county that is separate from the town. Broomfield does not.

For years, the City of Broomfield was a single town whose streets and neighborhoods spilled across the lines of four different counties. A home on one block answered to one county; a home a few streets over answered to another. That split made simple things harder, from voting to taxes to who plowed which road.

Voters approved a change to the state constitution to fix it. The city’s land was detached from those four counties and joined into one combined unit: the City and County of Broomfield. After that, one government handled both the city work and the county work for the same piece of ground.

Why this still matters today: in Broomfield you do not have a separate county courthouse in another town making decisions about your property. The same elected body and staff handle local services and county duties together. It is a tidy setup, and it explains why Broomfield feels different from its neighbors on a map.

To read how the consolidation happened and how the government is organized, see the City and County of Broomfield’s official site and the state’s local-government office.