Zip lookup · CO

81212
Canon City, Colorado.

Canon City, Fremont County, CO · Ca±on City, CO metro · population 32,292

What it costs per month · 81212 $1,717/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$899 (+110%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $5,788 -2%
$332,883$327,095 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $39,368 +14%
$287,727$327,095 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 81212 $1,717 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 81212$1,717
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.

Typical home values in zip 81212 fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 81212 rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 81212 runs $795/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $992 in Oct 2023.

That is $2,166 a month against $1,371 rent: a $1,717 mortgage payment, plus $99 property tax and $350 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 81212

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.

$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 $2,250 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $2,166 Renting $1,371 Mortgage only $1,717
$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 $2,250 2023 2024 2025 2026
  • Owning all in$2,166
  • Renting$1,371
  • Mortgage only$1,717

Property tax · $99/mo 0.36% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fremont County, CO

Insurance & upkeep · $350/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: Canon City, CO — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,371 as of Sep 2026
+5.7%year on year
Typical home value $327,095 as of Sep 2026
-1.7%year on year

Asking rent — 81212

Against the Ca±on City, CO metro and the national benchmark.

$1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2023 2024 2025 2026 81212 $1,371 Ca±on City $1,354 United States $1,932
$1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2023 2024 2025 2026
  • 81212$1,371
  • Ca±on City$1,354
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 81212

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 81212 $327,095 Ca±on City $333,913 United States $366,157
$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 81212$327,095
  • Ca±on City$333,913
  • United States$366,157

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