Edgewater, Colorado.
Typical home $567,131 (-0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,660 . Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,396 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,722 -1%
- $571,853$567,131 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,153 +7%
- $530,978$567,131 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.
- Edgewater$2,977
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 53 years.
Typical home values in Edgewater, CO fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edgewater, Jefferson County, Colorado
Edgewater is a city of 5,005 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $76,591 a year and half less, against $110,656 across Jefferson County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 40% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 60% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edgewater is a small city beside Denver, in Jefferson County. Residents are younger than in much of the country, and renters outnumber owners, which is the reverse of the county as a whole. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes and rents are priced high for those incomes. Winters are cold and snowy, with highs a little above freezing in the coldest month, while July is warm and the year is fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with shops, restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Edgewater are Target, King Soopers and Brothers Property Management. Commutes are fairly typical for a city this close to Denver, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Jefferson County, unemployment has risen over the past year and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Several large attractions sit in or beside town, including Elitch Gardens Theme Park, an amusement park, and the Downtown Aquarium, Denver, which is a zoo-style aquarium. A short drive away are the Denver Zoo and the Denver Art Museum, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a theatre known for concerts. Sports fans have Empower Field at Mile High, a stadium in or beside town, and Coors Field, another stadium a short drive away.
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- 2,344households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 247,248 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 60°. About 58 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lakewood weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edgewater
- TargetDiscount department stores193
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores159
- Brothers Property ManagementApartment managers' offices65
- EdgewaterMail and parcel delivery36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 453 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edgewater’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Jefferson County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Edgewater home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edgewater$567,131
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Edgewater 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.
- Edgewater35.82%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edgewater30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edgewater8
Zip codes with a Edgewater address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edgewater — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.