Zip lookup · CO

80601
Brighton, Colorado.

Brighton, Adams County, CO · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro · population 42,127

What it costs per month · 80601 $2,549/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,178 (+86%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $11,430 -2%
$497,031$485,601 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $14,206 +3%
$471,395$485,601 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 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 80601 $2,549 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 80601$2,549
  • United States$1,922

Typical home values in zip 80601 fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 80601 rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 80601 runs $1,342/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,648 in Oct 2023.

That is $3,316 a month against $1,974 rent: a $2,549 mortgage payment, plus $248 property tax and $520 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 80601

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.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $3,316 Renting $1,974 Mortgage only $2,549
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$3,316
  • Renting$1,974
  • Mortgage only$2,549

Property tax · $248/mo 0.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Adams County, CO

Insurance & upkeep · $520/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: Brighton, CO — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,974 as of Sep 2026
+1.3%year on year
Typical home value $485,601 as of Sep 2026
-2.3%year on year

Asking rent — 80601

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

$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 80601 $1,974 Denver $1,900 United States $1,932
$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 80601$1,974
  • Denver$1,900
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 80601

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 80601 $485,601 Denver $555,487 United States $366,157
$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 80601$485,601
  • Denver$555,487
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 55 zips in range — sorting picks from all 55.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
3.6 80603 Brighton 16,811 $3,168 $499,413
5.2 80602 Brighton 44,783 $2,934 $635,104
6.6 80640 Henderson 13,818 $2,168 $493,643
6.9 80022 Commerce City 61,452 $2,504 $462,343
8.1 80241 Thornton 34,082 $1,921 $502,714
8.6 80233 Denver 48,441 $1,652 $456,249
9.8 80249 Denver 41,590 $1,971 $451,549
10.0 80621 Fort Lupton 15,060 — $458,864
10.7 80023 Broomfield 27,143 $2,085 $808,143
10.8 80514 Dacono 6,721 — $490,578
10.9 80229 Denver 55,092 $1,633 $412,771
11.0 80234 Denver 29,356 $1,802 $511,507
11.4 80530 Frederick 6,242 — $493,590
11.9 80642 Hudson 4,466 — $694,076
12.2 80239 Denver 44,956 $1,732 $417,095
12.4 80520 Firestone 1,140 — $462,600
12.4 80260 Denver 34,677 $1,551 $390,706
12.8 80516 Erie 39,048 $2,772 $706,458
13.4 80238 Denver 30,575 $2,113 $748,298
13.5 80019 Aurora 7,900 $2,606 $503,792
13.7 80031 Westminster 35,584 $2,264 $494,545
14.3 80020 Broomfield 54,201 $2,196 $562,146
14.7 80216 Denver 17,330 $1,910 $344,399
14.8 80221 Denver 39,718 $1,865 $439,399
15.0 80045 Aurora 1,676 $1,720 —
15.1 80207 Denver 21,542 $2,389 $572,664
15.2 80011 Aurora 53,695 $1,675 $395,243
15.2 80030 Westminster 15,427 $1,355 $429,728
15.7 80010 Aurora 42,439 $1,543 $382,204
15.8 80026 Lafayette 32,701 $2,200 $663,139

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