Fraser, Colorado.
Typical home $781,063 (-2.1% in a year), asking rent $2,480 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,241 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,859 -2%
- $797,922$781,063 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,232 +10%
- $708,831$781,063 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.
- Fraser$4,100
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Fraser, CO fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fraser, Grand County, Colorado
Fraser is a town of 1,400 people in Grand County. Half its households earn more than $89,980 a year and half less, against $88,612 across Grand County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Grand County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grand County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fraser is a small mountain town in Grand County, Colorado, with a population that is small enough for people to know one another. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes and rents are priced high. Winters are long and cold, with heavy snow, and summers stay mild, with little of the heat found in lower country. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in the building trades, or in shops. Across Grand County, the largest workplaces include the East Grand School District, Kremmling Memorial Hospital District and King Soopers. The typical commute is not long, and only a small number of people work from home. Unemployment in the county has been low, and the number of jobs there grew slightly last year.
Things to do. Ski Idlewild, a ski area in or beside town, is the closest place to head for a day on the snow, and Winter Park Resort, a larger ski area, is a short drive away. For time by the water, Grand Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away. Arapaho National Forest, a protected area, is also a longer drive away, for those who want trails and open country.
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- 46%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Grand County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grand County had 8,194 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 31° and lows near -1°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 38°. About 143 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fraser weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grand County
- East Grand School District No. 2School district203FTE
- Kremmling Memorial Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital164FTE
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores115
- Compass Group94
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores76
- West Grand School District No. 1School district70FTE
- Mountain Parks Electric, Inc GranbyElectric distibution59
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 587 people in all across the county; Fraser has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of FraserRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fraser’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 Grand County.
Fraser home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fraser$781,063
- 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 Fraser 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.
- Fraser24.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fraser118
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fraser21
Zip codes with a Fraser address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fraser — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.