Hugo, Colorado.
Typical home $235,837 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$689 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,806 +7%
- $221,032$235,837 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,524 +12%
- $210,313$235,837 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.
- Hugo$1,238
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Hugo, CO rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hugo, Lincoln County, Colorado
Hugo is a town of 787 people in Lincoln County. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hugo is a small town on the high plains of eastern Colorado, in Lincoln County, and its population is young for a rural place. Homes here cost far less than in the Denver area, though household incomes across the county sit below the Colorado norm and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with December days that stay chilly and nights well below freezing, and summers turn hot in July. The year brings a fair amount of snow but only a little moisture overall, as is typical of the dry plains.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Lincoln County, the biggest employers include Lincoln Community Hospital, the Limon School District and NextEra Energy, which runs wind power generation. Unemployment in the county has risen over the past year, and there are somewhat fewer jobs than a year earlier. Almost nobody works from home, and the typical trip to work is a short one, well under an hour.
Things to do. The best-known stop nearby is the World's Wonder View Tower, a museum a short drive away. Beyond that, days in Hugo tend to be quiet and local, shaped by the open prairie and its big skies.
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- 407households
- 11%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 2,190 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 56°. About 24 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hugo Northwest weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln Community HospitalCritical access hospital136FTE
- Limon School District No. Re 4JSchool district66FTE
- NextEra EnergyWind electric power generation38
- Genoa-Hugo School District No. C-113School district37FTE
- Mountain View Electric AssociationDistribution of electric power31
- EnbridgeElectric power generation, wind24
- M7 ConstructionElectric power distribution systems22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 115 people in all across the county; Hugo 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hugo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Lincoln County.
Hugo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hugo$235,837
- 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.
- Hugo6
Zip codes with a Hugo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hugo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.