Craig, Colorado.
Typical home $302,448 (-0.4% in a year). Craig, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$899 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,268 -0%
- $303,716$302,448 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,704 +34%
- $225,744$302,448 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.
- Craig$1,587
- 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 Craig, CO fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Craig, Moffat County, Colorado
Craig is a city of 9,060 people in Moffat County. Half its households earn more than $72,636 a year and half less, against $73,849 across Moffat County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Moffat County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Craig is a small city in Moffat County, in the northwest corner of Colorado. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow part of the season, and summers turn properly warm by July, in a place where the yearly rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry total.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and many more work in the building trades, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The biggest workplaces in Craig include the Moffat County School District, THE Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Jobs across the county have shrunk over the past year and unemployment has risen, and commutes are short, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. In town, the Museum of Northwest Colorado is a local-history museum in or beside Craig. A short drive away, Williams Fork is a river and Elkhead State Park is a protected area, both good for time outdoors. Yampa River State Park is a longer drive away, and it is also a protected area.
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- 3,899households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Moffat County had 4,558 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 47°. About 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Craig Moffat County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Craig
- Moffat County School District RE: No. 1School district328FTE
- THE Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital244FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters192
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores86
- Ranch and Home SupplyRetail62
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 340 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Craig’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Moffat County and the Craig, CO metro.
Craig home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Craig$302,448
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Craig 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.
- Craig26.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Craig85
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Craig18
Zip codes with a Craig address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Craig — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.