Hartsel, Colorado.
Typical home $404,157 (+1.1% in a year). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,229 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,246 +1%
- $399,911$404,157 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,798 +23%
- $328,359$404,157 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.
- Hartsel$2,121
- 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 Hartsel, CO rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Hartsel, Park County, Colorado
Hartsel, in Park County, had 38 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Park County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Park County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hartsel is a community in Park County, Colorado, set in the wide South Park valley. It is a quiet place where neighbors know one another, and the open land around it gives it a rural feel.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Building trades and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also provide work for people here.
Things to do. The South Platte River and Antero Reservoir are both a short drive away and suit time spent on the water. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, a protected area a longer drive away, is known for its fossils.
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What people in Park County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Park County had 3,117 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 40°. About 49 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Antero Rsvr weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Park County
- Park County School District No. Re-2School district130FTE
- Platte Canyon School District No. 1 of the county of ParkSchool district127FTE
- Z-golf Food and Beverage ServicesBanquet halls with catering staff59
- Central RegionSolid waste collection38
- Charj HoldingsHardware stores23
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 120 people in all across the county; Hartsel has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of HartselRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hartsel’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 Park County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Hartsel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hartsel$404,157
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hartsel listings — 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.
- Hartsel22.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hartsel62
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hartsel9
Zip codes with a Hartsel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hartsel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.