Burlington, Colorado.
Typical home $246,198 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$726 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,897 +3%
- $239,300$246,198 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,681 +26%
- $195,516$246,198 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.
- Burlington$1,292
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Burlington, CO rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burlington, Kit Carson County, Colorado
Burlington is a city of 3,172 people in Kit Carson County. Half its households earn more than $74,308 a year and half less, against $70,259 across Kit Carson County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Kit Carson County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burlington is a small city on the eastern plains of Colorado, in Kit Carson County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and a fair amount of snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, and in government. Among the largest workplaces in Burlington are the public school district, Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital and Safeway. Commutes are short, and unemployment across the county is low and steady compared with a year ago.
Things to do. The Elitch Gardens Carousel, a tourist attraction, is in or beside town. For a longer drive, Bonny Lake State Park is a protected area where people go for time outdoors.
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- 1,229households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kit Carson County had 3,051 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 60°. About 34 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burlington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burlington
- Burlington Public School District No. RE-6JSchool district101FTE
- KIT Carson County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores66
- Frontline Resource ManagementNursing care facilities42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 108 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burlington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Kit Carson County.
Burlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burlington$246,198
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Burlington 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.
- Burlington25.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burlington31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Burlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.