Byers, Colorado.
Typical home $546,235 (-0.7% in a year). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,467 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,809 -1%
- $550,044$546,235 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,290 +11%
- $491,945$546,235 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.
- Byers$2,867
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Byers, CO fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Byers, Adams County, Colorado
Byers, in Adams County, had 1,322 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Adams County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Adams 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Byers is a small community on the eastern plains of Adams County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and very few households fall below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Precipitation is light, so the land is dry for most of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Adams County, some of the largest workplaces are Children's Hospital Colorado, Adams 12 Five Star Schools and Loenbro, an electrical contractor. Commutes are long compared with many places, and some people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Plains Conservation Center is a museum a longer drive away, and Rambler Ranch is another museum, also a longer drive away. Aurora Reservoir, a reservoir for walking and time by the water, is a longer drive as well.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Adams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 249,734 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 57°. About 43 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Byers Ene weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams County
- University of CO HospitalGeneral hospital6,792FTE
- Children's Hospital ColoradoChildren's hospital6,672FTE
- Adams 12 Five Star SchoolsSchool district4,678FTE
- LoenbroElectrical contractors3,024
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,828
- Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. C&IElectrical contractors2,808
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services2,399
- School District 27JSchool district2,290FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 609 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 90,679 people in all across the county; Byers has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- HailVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Byers’ 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 Adams County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Byers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Byers$546,235
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Byers17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Byers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Byers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.