Alma, Colorado.
Typical home $597,185 (-0.6% in a year). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,755 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,559 -1%
- $600,744$597,185 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,129 +19%
- $503,056$597,185 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.
- Alma$3,134
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Alma, CO fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alma, Park County, Colorado
Alma is a town of 296 people in Park County. Unemployment in Park County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Park County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alma is a very small town high in the Colorado Rockies, in Park County, with fewer residents than most places that go by the name of town. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country, and winters are long and cold, with the coldest weather in December. Summers are mild and short, July being the warmest month, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. People who live in Alma work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Park County, the largest workplaces include the Park County and Platte Canyon school districts and the Forest Service. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. South Park City, a museum, and the Blue River are both a short drive away, and the East Fork Arkansas River is close as well. For skiing, Breckenridge Ski Resort and Copper Mountain are a longer drive away, as are the ski slopes at Arapahoe Basin.
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- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Park County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Park County had 3,117 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 71° and lows near 42°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fairplay South Park Rd weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Park County
- Park County School District No. Re-2School district130FTE
- Platte Canyon School District No. 1 of the county of ParkSchool district127FTE
- Z-golf Food and Beverage ServicesBanquet halls with catering staff59
- Central RegionSolid waste collection38
- Charj HoldingsHardware stores23
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 120 people in all across the county; Alma has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alma’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Park County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Alma home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alma$597,185
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Alma listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Alma26.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alma33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alma8
Zip codes with a Alma address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alma — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.