Clark, Colorado.
Typical home $859,981 (+2.6% in a year). Steamboat Springs, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,820 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,710 +3%
- $838,271$859,981 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $222,838 +35%
- $637,143$859,981 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.
- Clark$4,514
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Clark, CO rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clark, Routt County, Colorado
The Census does not count Clark on its own, so the figures here are Routt County's. Half the county's households earn more than $106,489 a year and half less; 5% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Routt County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Routt County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clark is a small community in Routt County, in the northwest corner of Colorado. Across Routt County, most homes are lived in by their owners. The typical resident is well into middle age, household incomes are above those of the typical American household, and fewer families live below the poverty line than across the country. Typical home values here are well above the national figure. Winters are cold and very snowy, while summers are mild and warm, and the area gets moderate rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across the county, more adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and a good share of workers work from home. Unemployment has risen over the past year, and the number of jobs has slipped a little from the year before.
Things to do. Elk River is a river a short drive away, and Steamboat Lake State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive out. For winter, Howelsen Hill Ski Area is a ski area a longer drive away.
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- 11,281households
- 43.4median age
- 54%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What people in Routt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Routt County had 16,323 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 46°. About 184 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Steamboat Springs weather station, 26 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Routt County
- Yampa Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital449FTE
- Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2School district382FTE
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores146
- Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse AssociationFamily physicians' offices145
- WalmartDiscount department stores117
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores103
- OSP EmployeesHotels & motels90
- VacasaTravel accomodation87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,729 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Routt 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 Routt County and the Steamboat Springs, CO metro.
Clark home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clark$859,981
- 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.
- Clark13
Zip codes with a Clark address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clark — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.