Ignacio, Colorado.
Typical home $465,449 (+0.5% in a year). Durango, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,322 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,447 +1%
- $463,001$465,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,051 +24%
- $375,397$465,449 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.
- Ignacio$2,443
- 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 Ignacio, CO rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ignacio, La Plata County, Colorado
Ignacio is a town of 852 people in La Plata County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% 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 residents work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ignacio is a small town in southwest Colorado, in La Plata County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is more common here than across much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January highs staying near freezing and nights well below it, while summers turn warm in July, and a fair amount of snow falls each year.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across La Plata County, the largest workplaces include Conservation Legacy, Mercy Hospital and Fort Lewis College. Most people have a fairly short trip to work, and only a few work from home.
Things to do. The Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum sits in or beside town and is the closest stop for anyone curious about the area's history. A longer drive away are Chimney Rock National Monument, an archaeological site, and the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, a museum. Navajo State Park, a protected area on a reservoir, is also a longer drive from town.
Report a mistake
- 482households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents 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 38° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 52°. About 34 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ignacio 6ESE weather station, 6 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 across the county; Ignacio has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ignacio’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 La Plata County and the Durango, CO metro.
Ignacio home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ignacio$465,449
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Ignacio 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.
- Ignacio17.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ignacio24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ignacio5
Zip codes with a Ignacio address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ignacio — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.