Alamosa, Colorado.
Typical home $311,590 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,071 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$933 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,054 +2%
- $304,536$311,590 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,533 +33%
- $235,057$311,590 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.
- Alamosa$1,635
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Alamosa, CO rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alamosa, Alamosa County, Colorado
Alamosa is a city of 9,806 people in Alamosa County. Half its households earn more than $49,688 a year and half less, against $55,397 across Alamosa County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. Unemployment in Alamosa County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alamosa is a small city with a young population for a place of its size, and more renters than owners among its households. Incomes run below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January lows near freezing and below, a fair amount of snow, and little rain or melted snow over the whole year. Summers are warm without turning hot, and most people get to work in a short drive.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Alamosa include the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center, Adams State University and the Alamosa school district. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad, a museum, is in or beside town, as is the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area, a protected area. A short drive away, the Alamosa River and the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge offer quiet time along the water and among the wildlife. For a longer outing, Zapata Falls is a waterfall that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 4,084households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alamosa County had 8,181 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 48°. About 30 inches of snow and 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alamosa 1E weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alamosa
- San Luis Valley REG MED CenterGeneral hospital554FTE
- Valley-Wide Health SystemsCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient550
- Adams State UniversityUniversity or college534
- Alamosa School District No. Re-11JSchool district324FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters303
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores116
- Life Care Centers of AmericaSkilled nursing facilities93
- Evergreen Nursing HomeSkilled nursing facilities78
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,478 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of AlamosaRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alamosa’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 Alamosa County.
Alamosa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alamosa$311,590
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Alamosa 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.
- Alamosa26.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alamosa60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alamosa11
Zip codes with a Alamosa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alamosa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.