Florence, Colorado.
Typical home $277,401 (-2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,200 . Ca±on City, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$765 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,629 -2%
- $284,029$277,401 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,995 +14%
- $244,405$277,401 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.
- Florence$1,456
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Florence, CO fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Florence, Fremont County, Colorado
Florence is a city of 3,822 people in Fremont County. Half its households earn more than $50,262 a year and half less, against $62,664 across Fremont County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Fremont County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Florence is a small city in Fremont County, Colorado, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are below the county's, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with the coldest weather in December, while summers are hot, and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Across Fremont County, some of the largest workplaces are Fremont Re Schools, the Bureau of Prisons and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year ago, and few residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Royal Gorge Route Railroad is a museum and railway, and Hardscrabble Creek and Brush Hollow Reservoir offer river and reservoir settings for time outdoors. For a longer day out, San Isabel National Forest is a protected area of mountain country, and the Pueblo Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 1,571households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fremont County had 14,577 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 49° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 59°. About 38 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canon City weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fremont County
- Fremont Re-1 SchoolsSchool district499FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
- St. Thomas More HospitalCritical access hospital244FTE
- Golden Nugget Cripple CreekHotels, casino238
- Fremont Re-2 SchoolsSchool district216FTE
- Oldcastle SW GroupPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction169
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores117
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,036 people in all across the county; Florence has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Florence’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 Fremont County and the Ca±on City, CO metro.
Florence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Florence$277,401
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Florence listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Florence32.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Florence40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Florence8
Zip codes with a Florence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Florence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.