Hesperus, Colorado.
Typical home $558,224 (-1.5% in a year). Durango, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,622 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,438 -1%
- $566,662$558,224 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $105,029 +23%
- $453,194$558,224 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.
- Hesperus$2,930
- 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 Hesperus, CO fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hesperus, La Plata County, Colorado
The Census does not count Hesperus on its own, so the figures here are La Plata County's. Half the county's households earn more than $86,056 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in La Plata County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in La Plata 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hesperus sits in La Plata County in the mountains of southwestern Colorado, where winters are cold and summers are warm. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Median household incomes are fairly high, though some residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and retail are the main kinds of work for residents. The county's jobless rate has edged up over the past year, while the number of jobs has grown modestly. A substantial share of adults hold a college degree, and many people work from home.
Things to do. Mesa Verde National Park, a national park a longer drive away, is known for its ancient cliff dwellings. Aztec Ruins National Monument, an archaeological site also a longer drive away, offers another look at the region's past. Hesperus Ski Area, a ski area a longer drive away, is an option for winter visitors.
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- 24,378households
- 43.2median age
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in La Plata County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. La Plata County had 27,353 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 51°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Lewis weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in La Plata County
- Conservation LegacyNatural resource preservation organizations2,377
- Mercy HospitalGeneral hospital856FTE
- Durango School District No. 9-RSchool district844FTE
- Fort Lewis CollegeUniversity or college675
- Mountain Capital PartnersAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations390
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters358
- Bayfield School District No. 10Jt-RSchool district188FTE
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores136
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,122 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across La Plata County, 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 La Plata County and the Durango, CO metro.
Hesperus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hesperus$558,224
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Hesperus 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.
- Hesperus16.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hesperus22
Zip codes with a Hesperus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hesperus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.