Eckley, Colorado.
Typical home $237,353 (+3.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$415 (+50%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $6,849 +3%
- $230,504$237,353 since Sep 2025
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.
- Eckley$1,246
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Eckley, CO rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eckley, Yuma County, Colorado
Eckley is a town of 232 people in Yuma County. Unemployment in Yuma County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yuma County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eckley is a very small town on the plains of eastern Colorado, in Yuma County, with a population smaller than most places that call themselves towns. Its residents are younger on average than people in many rural communities. Homes here cost less than in much of the state, and winters are cold and snowy, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Most residents who hold jobs work in farming, forestry and mining, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, shops and the building trades. Across Yuma County, the largest workplaces include Wray Community District Hospital, Yuma 1 School District and Five Rivers Cattle Feeding. Unemployment across the county is low and a little higher than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs. The typical commute is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor places are all a longer drive away. The Arikaree River and the North Fork Republican River are prairie waterways in the area. Beecher Island is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away.
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- 19 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Yuma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yuma County had 4,047 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 62°. About 23 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yuma weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yuma County
- Wray Community District HospitalCritical access hospital156FTE
- Yuma 1 School DistrictSchool district124FTE
- Wray RD-2 School DistrictSchool district113FTE
- Yuma District HospitalCritical access hospital91FTE
- Wray Community Long Term CareSkilled nursing facilities79
- Five Rivers Cattle FeedingBeef cattle feedlots55
- Idalia RJ-3 School DistrictSchool district34FTE
- Quality Irrigation - YumaAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 538 people in all across the county; Eckley has none 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eckley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Yuma County.
Eckley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eckley$237,353
- 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 Eckley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eckley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.