Fountain, Colorado.
Typical home $385,215 (-1.0% in a year), asking rent $2,079 (+5.8%). Colorado Springs, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$977 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,914 -1%
- $389,129$385,215 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,274 +4%
- $369,942$385,215 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.
- Fountain$2,022
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 86 years.
Typical home values in Fountain, CO fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fountain, CO rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fountain runs $486/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $893 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,565 a month against $2,079 rent: a $2,022 mortgage payment, plus $130 property tax and $412 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fountain
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,565
- Renting$2,079
- Mortgage only$2,022
Property tax · $130/mo 0.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for El Paso County, CO
Insurance & upkeep · $412/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Fountain, El Paso County, Colorado
Fountain is a city of 29,802 people in El Paso County. Half its households earn more than $86,242 a year and half less, against $90,363 across El Paso County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Fountain was 5.0% in August 2026, and El Paso County had 0.5% 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. Fountain is a city south of Colorado Springs, and its residents are younger than in most places, with more homeowners than renters. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm; the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in the building trades. The largest workplaces in Fountain include the local school district, Walmart and Safeway. Unemployment has risen over the past year, and the county has lost a few jobs, so the local job market is softer than it was.
Things to do. Fountain Creek Nature Center is a park in or beside town, and Rock Creek and Pikes Peak International Raceway are a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Garden of the Gods, a protected area, and to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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- 10,454households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. El Paso County had 307,977 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 58°. About 32 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fountain
- Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso anSchool district1,055FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters397
- Windigo LogisticsGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers360
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores156
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter138
- Roush IndustriesEngineering services129
- CarvanaMotor vehicle dealers125
- ArxisPipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,776 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of FountainRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of FountainRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fountain’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 El Paso County and the Colorado Springs, CO metro.
Fountain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fountain$385,215
- 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 3 Fountain listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 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.
- Fountain38.89%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Fountain27
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fountain183
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fountain50
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fountain$401,323
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Fountain100.05%
Zip codes with a Fountain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fountain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fountain
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80817 | Fountain | 31,241 | $2,052 | $386,416 |
| 80928 | Colorado Springs | 798 | — | $408,637 |