Cahone, Colorado.
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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 Cahone, Dolores County, Colorado
The Census does not count Cahone on its own, so the figures here are Dolores County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,907 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Dolores County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dolores County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cahone is a small town in Dolores County in southwestern Colorado. Winters are cold and summers are warm, so the seasons are easy to tell apart. Across Dolores County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a degree than in many larger places.
Work. Across Dolores County, unemployment is higher than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has fallen since the year before. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in professional and business services, or in the building trades.
Things to do. Narraguinnep Natural Area is a park a short drive away, a good place for an outing close to home. Farther off, Hovenweep National Monument is an archaeological site, and McPhee Reservoir is a reservoir, both a longer drive away.
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- 1,254households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 17%work from home
What people in Dolores County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dolores County had 526 jobs in 2025, 3.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 55°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yellow Jacket 4NE weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dolores County
- Dolores County School District RE-2JSchool district56FTE
School districts come 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dolores County, 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 Dolores County.
Cahone 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.
- Cahone10
Zip codes with a Cahone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cahone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.