Glendale, Colorado.
Typical home $311,884 (-8.4% in a year), asking rent $1,433 (+1.3%). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$596 (+57%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $28,617 -8%
- $340,500$311,884 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $25,425 -8%
- $337,309$311,884 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.
- Glendale$1,637
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Glendale, CO fell 8.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Glendale, CO rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Glendale runs $674/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,112 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,107 a month against $1,433 rent: a $1,637 mortgage payment, plus $136 property tax and $334 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Glendale
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$2,107
- Renting$1,433
- Mortgage only$1,637
Property tax · $136/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Arapahoe County, CO
Insurance & upkeep · $334/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 Glendale, Arapahoe County, Colorado
Glendale is a city of 4,613 people in Arapahoe County. Half its households earn more than $71,250 a year and half less, against $101,087 across Arapahoe County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 4% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 96% are rented. Unemployment in Arapahoe County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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. Glendale is a small city surrounded by Denver, with a younger population than most places and a household income below the county's. Nearly everyone here rents, far more than across Arapahoe County, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the largest workplaces in Glendale are Target, King Soopers and the Veterans Health Administration. The commute is short for most people, and a good number work from home. Unemployment across Arapahoe County has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. Denver Botanic Gardens and Infinity Park, a stadium, are in or beside town, and Cheesman Park is just as close. A short drive away are the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Zoo. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a theatre, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,688households
- 55%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Arapahoe County had 340,945 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 62°. About 41 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Denver Water Dept weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glendale
- TargetDiscount department stores395
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs257
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores168
- Colorado Blvd128
- GlendaleMail and parcel delivery61
- Denver CorporateApartment hotel rental or leasing28
- Greystar22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 802 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glendale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Arapahoe County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Glendale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glendale$311,884
- 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.
- Glendale6
Zip codes with a Glendale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glendale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.