Haxtun, Colorado.
Typical home $206,142 (-2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$590 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,501 -3%
- $211,644$206,142 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,227 +24%
- $165,916$206,142 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.
- Haxtun$1,082
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Haxtun, CO fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado
Haxtun is a town of 981 people in Phillips County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Phillips County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Haxtun is a small town in Phillips County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical resident is older than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year, which suits a town that sits among farmland.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, other services, and farming, forestry and mining also providing jobs. Across Phillips County, the largest workplaces include Melissa Memorial Hospital, Haxtun Hospital District and Holyoke School District. Commutes are short, and unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year earlier.
Things to do. The one nearby place worth noting is Lodgepole Creek, a river a longer drive away. Otherwise, days in Haxtun tend to be local ones, spent close to home among neighbors and open country.
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- 439households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Phillips County had 1,795 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 61°. About 37 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fleming 3SW weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Phillips County
- Melissa Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital103FTE
- Haxtun Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital89FTE
- Holyoke School District No. Re-1JSchool district85FTE
- Haxtun School District No. Re-2JSchool district48FTE
- Regent Park Care CenterHomes for the elderly with nursing care43
- ITC ServicesAgriculture production or harvesting crews23
- Central Plains Equipment - HolyokeAgricultural implements merchant wholesalers22
- Jack's Bean CompanyPea farming, dry, field and seed production22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 110 people in all across the county; Haxtun has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Haxtun’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 Phillips County.
Haxtun home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Haxtun$206,142
- 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.
- Haxtun8
Zip codes with a Haxtun address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Haxtun — 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.