De Beque, Colorado.
Typical home $407,967 (+0.8% in a year). Glenwood Springs, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,272 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,434 +1%
- $404,532$407,967 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,565 +27%
- $321,401$407,967 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.
- De Beque$2,141
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in De Beque, CO rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in De Beque, Garfield County, Colorado
De Beque is a town of 493 people in Garfield County. Half its households earn more than $63,558 a year and half less, against $91,131 across Garfield County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Garfield County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Garfield County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. De Beque is a small town in Garfield County, Colorado, with a population well below what most people would call a city. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest for a Colorado town. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect in much of the state. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while July brings hot summer days and the year stays fairly dry overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and shops. Across Garfield County, the largest workplaces include Valley View Hospital, Garfield School District No. Re and Colorado Mountain College. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. Some residents work from home.
Things to do. Roan Creek runs in or beside town, and the IOOF Hall, a theatre, is also close at hand. A longer drive brings you to Grand Mesa National Forest, a protected area good for time outdoors, and to Powderhorn Resort, a ski area, which suits the snowy winters.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in Garfield County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Garfield County had 27,898 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 54°. About 60 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Collbran 1WSW weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Garfield County
- Colorado Mountain CollegeUniversity or college1,030
- Valley View HospitalGeneral hospital1,027FTE
- Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1School district776FTE
- Garfield School District No. Re-2School district731FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters264
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer225
- Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge & PoolHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities201
- Grand Valley School District No. 16 in the county of GarfiSchool district187FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,517 people in all across the county; De Beque has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LandslidesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in De Beque’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Garfield County and the Glenwood Springs, CO metro.
De Beque home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- De Beque$407,967
- 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.
- De Beque10
Zip codes with a De Beque address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls De Beque — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.