Zip lookup · CO

80238
Denver, Colorado.

Denver, Denver County, CO · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro · population 30,575

What it costs per month · 80238 $3,928/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,706 (+77%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $5,217 -1%
$753,515$748,298 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $18,888 +3%
$729,411$748,298 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 80238 $3,928 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 80238$3,928
  • United States$1,922

Typical home values in zip 80238 fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 80238 fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 80238 runs $2,894/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,438 in Oct 2023.

That is $5,007 a month against $2,113 rent: a $3,928 mortgage payment, plus $278 property tax and $801 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 80238

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$2,000 $3,000 $4,000 $5,000 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $5,007 Renting $2,113 Mortgage only $3,928
$2,000 $3,000 $4,000 $5,000 2020 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$5,007
  • Renting$2,113
  • Mortgage only$3,928

Property tax · $278/mo 0.45% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Denver County, CO

Insurance & upkeep · $801/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Denver, CO — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $2,113 as of Sep 2026
-0.9%year on year
Typical home value $748,298 as of Sep 2026
-0.7%year on year

Asking rent — 80238

Against the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $1,750 $2,000 $2,250 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 80238 $2,113 Denver $1,900 United States $1,932
$1,500 $1,750 $2,000 $2,250 2020 2022 2024 2026
  • 80238$2,113
  • Denver$1,900
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 80238

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 80238 $748,298 Denver $555,487 United States $366,157
$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 80238$748,298
  • Denver$555,487
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 82 zips in range — sorting picks from all 82.

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2.2 80207 Denver 21,542 $2,389 $572,664
2.6 80239 Denver 44,956 $1,732 $417,095
2.8 80010 Aurora 42,439 $1,543 $382,204
3.1 80045 Aurora 1,676 $1,720 —
3.6 80220 Denver 37,203 $1,704 $636,337
4.0 80230 Denver 10,449 $1,888 $765,670
4.4 80216 Denver 17,330 $1,910 $344,399
4.6 80205 Denver 34,571 $2,010 $554,302
5.0 80206 Denver 24,383 $1,858 $845,477
5.3 80011 Aurora 53,695 $1,675 $395,243
5.6 80247 Denver 29,760 $1,824 $250,441
5.7 80246 Denver 13,097 $1,360 $558,239
5.7 80218 Denver 19,149 $1,489 $478,927
5.8 80012 Aurora 51,052 $1,541 $381,322
6.3 80203 Denver 22,441 $1,582 $336,510
6.4 80224 Denver 19,352 $1,638 $542,874
6.5 80202 Denver 18,589 $2,013 $536,957
6.7 80209 Denver 27,564 $2,200 $956,405
6.8 80229 Denver 55,092 $1,633 $412,771
7.3 80231 Denver 35,883 $1,488 $395,367
7.4 80221 Denver 39,718 $1,865 $439,399
7.4 80211 Denver 38,177 $2,186 $688,365
7.5 80640 Henderson 13,818 $2,168 $493,643
7.7 80222 Denver 23,838 $1,752 $538,318
7.8 80022 Commerce City 61,452 $2,504 $462,343
7.8 80017 Aurora 40,584 $1,566 $392,502
8.0 80204 Denver 35,318 $1,951 $515,126
8.1 80210 Denver 39,113 $2,019 $815,251
8.2 80014 Aurora 39,496 $1,599 $340,507
8.5 80223 Denver 19,246 $1,958 $439,895

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.