Calhan, Colorado.
Typical home $472,193 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,933 . Colorado Springs, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,332 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,808 +2%
- $463,386$472,193 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,306 +15%
- $410,887$472,193 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.
- Calhan$2,478
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Calhan, CO rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Calhan, El Paso County, Colorado
Calhan is a town of 762 people in El Paso County. Unemployment in El Paso County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Calhan is a small town on the high plains east of Colorado Springs, home to a small population. Homes here are typically worth more than the median across much of the country, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and the town sees a good deal of snow each year; summers are warm, with July the hottest month, and the year brings only modest rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in government. Many drive a long way to get to work, and only a small share work from home. Across El Paso County, large employers include Memorial Health System, Amazon and Academy School District, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year while unemployment has edged up.
Things to do. The Calhan Paint Mines Archeological District sits in or beside town, an archaeological site of colorful clay formations to walk through. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Palmer Park, a park in Colorado Springs, and to the Western Museum of Mining & Industry, a museum devoted to the region's mining past. The Peterson Air and Space Museum, also a longer drive away, is another museum for those who like aviation history.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. El Paso County had 307,977 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 56°. About 31 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rush 1N weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in El Paso County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,670
- Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of ESchool district3,578FTE
- Memorial Health SystemGeneral hospital3,467FTE
- Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso anSchool district3,410FTE
- El Paso County Colorado School District 49School district3,000FTE
- Penrose HospitalGeneral hospital2,316FTE
- The Broadmoor HotelResort hotels without casinos2,200
- CommonSpirit HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals2,166
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 499 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 65,459 people in all across the county; Calhan has two of its own. 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Calhan’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 El Paso County and the Colorado Springs, CO metro.
Calhan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Calhan$472,193
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Calhan 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.
- Calhan22.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Calhan40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Calhan7
Zip codes with a Calhan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Calhan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.