Eads, Colorado.
Typical home $155,027 (-7.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$394 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,750 -7%
- $166,777$155,027 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,954 +5%
- $147,073$155,027 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.
- Eads$814
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 66 years.
Typical home values in Eads, CO fell 7.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eads, Kiowa County, Colorado
Eads is a town of 672 people in Kiowa County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Kiowa County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kiowa County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eads is a very small town on the eastern Colorado plains, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a small farming community. Winters are cold, summers get hot, and the land receives little rain or snow across a year, as is common on the high plains.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining close behind, and building trades and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing local people. Across Kiowa County, the biggest workplaces include Weisbrod Memorial County Hospital and the Kiowa County School District. Few people work from home, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, a protected area that marks a painful chapter of Colorado history and is a longer drive away. John Martin Reservoir State Park, also a longer drive, is a protected area built around a large reservoir on the plains. Adobe Creek Reservoir, another reservoir a longer drive from town, offers more quiet water in the same open country.
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- 299households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Kiowa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kiowa County had 490 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 62°. About 14 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eads weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kiowa County
- Weisbrod Memorial County HospitalCritical access hospital54FTE
- Kiowa County School District No. Re-1School district32FTE
- Aldi INC Pennsylvania20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 20 people in all across the county; Eads has two of its own. 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eads’ 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 Kiowa County.
Eads home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eads$155,027
- 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.
- Eads6
Zip codes with a Eads address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eads — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.