Hayden, Colorado.
Typical home $525,517 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $2,350 . Steamboat Springs, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,670 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,334 +4%
- $504,184$525,517 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $130,039 +33%
- $395,478$525,517 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.
- Hayden$2,758
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Hayden, CO rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hayden, Routt County, Colorado
Hayden is a town of 1,941 people in Routt County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Routt County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hayden is a small town in Routt County, Colorado, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values and rents run high, though incomes in the county are comfortable and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, while the year brings only a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Across Routt County, some of the largest workplaces are Yampa Valley Medical Center, the Steamboat Springs school district and King Soopers. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, the typical commute is fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Yampa River State Park lies in or beside town, and Elkhead State Park and its reservoir are a short drive away, good for time by the water. Steamboat Ski Resort is a longer drive away and is the best-known ski area nearby.
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- 837households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Routt County had 16,323 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 50°. About 113 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hayden weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Routt County
- Yampa Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital449FTE
- Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2School district382FTE
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores146
- Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse AssociationFamily physicians' offices145
- WalmartDiscount department stores117
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores103
- OSP EmployeesHotels & motels90
- VacasaTravel accomodation87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,729 people in all across the county; Hayden 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively 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 Hayden’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 Routt County and the Steamboat Springs, CO metro.
Hayden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hayden$525,517
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Hayden 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.
- Hayden31.36%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hayden45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hayden8
Zip codes with a Hayden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hayden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.