Estes Park, Colorado.
Typical home $682,523 (+1.0% in a year), asking rent $2,383 . Fort Collins, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,791 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,631 +1%
- $675,892$682,523 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,217 +12%
- $607,306$682,523 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.
- Estes Park$3,582
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Estes Park, CO rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado
Estes Park is a town of 5,904 people in Larimer County. Half its households earn more than $85,956 a year and half less, against $93,765 across Larimer County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Larimer County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Estes Park is a small mountain town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values and rents run high. Household incomes are somewhat below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and very snowy, with summers that stay mild and pleasant, and the town sees a fair amount of moisture across the year.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in other service jobs, which fits a town so close to a national park. Among the largest workplaces in town are the National Park Service, the Estes Park school district and Safeway. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Larimer County, unemployment is a little higher than a year earlier and the number of jobs slipped last year.
Things to do. Rocky Mountain National Park, a national park, is a short drive away, and so are Bear Lake and Sprague Lake, both mountain lakes. Closer in, Lake Estes is a reservoir in or beside town. For a longer outing, Grand Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,864households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Larimer County had 171,281 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 48°. About 104 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Estes Park Sse weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Estes Park
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior273
- Estes Park School District R-3School district157FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores112
- Z-Golf Food & Beverage ServicesFood & beverage service, banquet81
- Delaware North CompaniesHotels except casino hotels and motels58
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior41
- Lamson Properties ManagementHotels, resort, without casinos21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 272 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Estes Park’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 Larimer County and the Fort Collins, CO metro.
Estes Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Estes Park$682,523
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Estes Park listings, and the typical home goes pending in 46 days — 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.
- Estes Park26.83%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Estes Park46
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Estes Park190
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Estes Park35
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Estes Park$638,328
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Estes Park97.07%
Zip codes with a Estes Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Estes Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.