Crook, Colorado.
Typical home $257,309 (+4.4% in a year). Sterling, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$738 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,764 +4%
- $246,546$257,309 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,385 +21%
- $212,925$257,309 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.
- Crook$1,351
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Crook, CO rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crook, Logan County, Colorado
Crook is a town of 133 people in Logan County. Unemployment in Logan County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Logan County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crook is a very small town in Logan County, in the plains of northeastern Colorado. The people who live here are older than in most of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes cost more than the county's median household income might suggest, though incomes in the county run below the national picture.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, farming and the restaurant and lodging trades. Across Logan County, some of the largest workplaces are Sterling Regional Medcenter, Northeastern Junior College and Walmart. Work from home is not common, and the county's job market has grown only slightly over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, North Sterling State Park is a protected area with a reservoir, a longer drive away, and Lodgepole Creek is a river that is also a longer drive. Those who like history and the arts can head, again a longer drive, to Fort Sidney, a historic fort, or to the Lodgepole Opera House, a theatre. Winters are cold and snowy and summers are hot, with fairly dry conditions through the year.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 7%work from home
What people in Logan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Logan County had 7,773 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 58°. About 25 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crook weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Logan County
- School District No. Re-1 ValleySchool district313FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters298
- Northeastern Junior CollegeTwo-year college188
- Sterling Regional MedcenterGeneral hospital161FTE
- Devonshire Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities95
- Trinidad BenhamDried foods merchant wholesalers60
- Simon - SterlingPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction50
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 883 people in all across the county; Crook has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crook’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 Logan County and the Sterling, CO metro.
Crook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crook$257,309
- 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.
Zip codes with a Crook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.