Brookside, Colorado.
. Ca±on City, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,308 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Living in Brookside, Fremont County, Colorado
Brookside is a town of 236 people in Fremont County. Unemployment in Fremont County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Fremont County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookside is a very small town in Fremont County, Colorado, where neighbors are likely to know one another and the pace is quiet. Winters are cold, with a good amount of snow, and summers turn hot. Precipitation through the year is light, which fits the dry feel of this part of the state.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Fremont County, some of the largest workplaces are Fremont Re Schools, the Bureau of Prisons and St. Thomas More Hospital. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the number of jobs has held about steady.
Things to do. For a short outing, Buckskin Joe is an amusement park a short drive away, and the Royal Gorge Route Railroad is a museum, also a short drive away. Hardscrabble Creek, a river, is likewise close by. For a longer trip, San Isabel National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Fremont County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fremont County had 14,577 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 49° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 59°. About 38 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canon City weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fremont County
- Fremont Re-1 SchoolsSchool district499FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
- St. Thomas More HospitalCritical access hospital244FTE
- Golden Nugget Cripple CreekHotels, casino238
- Fremont Re-2 SchoolsSchool district216FTE
- Oldcastle SW GroupPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction169
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores117
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,036 people in all across the county; Brookside has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookside’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 Fremont County and the Ca±on City, CO metro.
Brookside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brookside7
Zip codes with a Brookside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.