Flagler, Colorado.
Typical home $221,817 (+1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$676 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,114 +2%
- $217,703$221,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,408 +23%
- $180,409$221,817 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.
- Flagler$1,164
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Flagler, CO rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Flagler, Kit Carson County, Colorado
Flagler is a town of 567 people in Kit Carson County. Unemployment in Kit Carson County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kit Carson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Flagler is a very small town on the eastern plains of Colorado, in Kit Carson County. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit below the Colorado norm.
Work. Farming, forestry and mining employ more of Flagler's residents than anything else, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. Across Kit Carson County, some of the largest workplaces are Burlington Public School District No. RE, Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital and Safeway. Few people work from home, and the county's job market has grown a little in the past year.
Things to do. The nearest places of note are a longer drive away. North Fork Arikaree River is a river for those who like time outdoors on the plains, and World's Wonder View Tower is a museum, a roadside landmark that draws travelers across this part of eastern Colorado.
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- 346households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Kit Carson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kit Carson County had 3,051 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 60°. About 24 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Flagler 1S weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kit Carson County
- Burlington Public School District No. RE-6JSchool district101FTE
- KIT Carson County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
- M A MortensonConstruction73
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores66
- Frontline Resource ManagementNursing care facilities42
- Arriba-Flagler Consolidated School District No. 20School district41FTE
- School District No. R-4 in the county of Kit Carson and StatSchool district35FTE
- Bethune School District No. R- 5School district29FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 246 people in all across the county; Flagler has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Flagler’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 Kit Carson County.
Flagler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Flagler$221,817
- 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.
- Flagler7
Zip codes with a Flagler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Flagler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.