Del Norte, Colorado.
Typical home $300,365 (+0.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$890 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $47 +0%
- $300,317$300,365 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,420 +27%
- $236,945$300,365 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.
- Del Norte$1,577
- 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 Del Norte, CO rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado
Del Norte is a town of 1,458 people in Rio Grande County. Half its households earn more than $40,700 a year and half less, against $64,411 across Rio Grande County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Rio Grande County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Del Norte is a small town in Rio Grande County, in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. Incomes here run well below the county's as a whole, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect of a town this size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller group of adults than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm without being hot, and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Del Norte include Upper Rio Grande School District C, the Forest Service and the PAY and Save grocery store. Unemployment across Rio Grande County has risen compared with a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Commutes are short, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The mountains and public land around Del Norte offer the main draw. Rio Grande National Forest is a large protected area a longer drive away, and the South Fork Rio Grande is a river also reached by a longer drive. Wolf Creek ski area, likewise a longer drive away, is the nearest place for downhill skiing in the snowy months.
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- 844households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rio Grande County had 4,402 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 50°. About 39 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Del Norte 3ENE weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Del Norte
- Upper Rio Grande School District C-7School district71FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture54
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 32 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LightningVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Del Norte’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 Rio Grande County.
Del Norte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Del Norte$300,365
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Del Norte 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.
- Del Norte19.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Del Norte34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Del Norte5
Zip codes with a Del Norte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Del Norte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.