Akron, Colorado.
Typical home $231,645 (-7.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$630 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $18,971 -8%
- $250,616$231,645 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,754 +13%
- $204,892$231,645 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.
- Akron$1,216
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Akron, CO fell 7.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Akron, Washington County, Colorado
Akron is a town of 1,757 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $57,321 a year and half less, against $67,167 across Washington County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Akron is a small town in Washington County, Colorado, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit in a range many longtime owners will recognize as modest. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many larger places, and winters are cold while summers turn hot, with a dry climate overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, banks, insurance and property, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Global Harvest Foods, which makes prepared bird feed, the Akron School District, and YW Electric Association. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Prewitt Reservoir is a reservoir a longer drive away. Beaver Creek and Pawnee Creek are both rivers, also a longer drive from town, and suit anyone who likes to spend a day by the water.
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- 766households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 1,213 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 60°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Akron Washington County Airport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Global Harvest FoodsBird feed, prepared, manufacturing79
- Akron School District No. R-1School district73FTE
- YW Electric Association Inc AkronElectric power distribution systems42
- Otis School District No. R-3School district39FTE
- Lone Star School District No. 101School district26FTE
- Woodlin School District No. R-104School district26FTE
- Anton CoopBonded warehousing, general merchandise24
- Arickaree School District No. R-2School district22FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 145 people in all across the county; Akron has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Akron’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Washington County.
Akron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Akron$231,645
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Akron listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Akron14.11%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Akron21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Akron5
Zip codes with a Akron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Akron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.