Iliff, Colorado.
Typical home $307,767 (+5.3% in a year). Sterling, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$853 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,593 +5%
- $292,174$307,767 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,648 +19%
- $258,118$307,767 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.
- Iliff$1,615
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Iliff, CO rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Iliff, Logan County, Colorado
Iliff is a town of 246 people in Logan County. Unemployment in Logan County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Logan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Iliff is a very small town on the plains of northeastern Colorado, in Logan County. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in December, and summers turn hot by July. The year brings little rain and melted snow, so the air and the farmland are dry. Homes here are valued well above what incomes across the county might suggest, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in most places.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and food and lodging also providing jobs. Across Logan County, some of the largest workplaces are Sterling Regional Medcenter, the Valley school district and Northeastern Junior College. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up. The typical commute is short, so most people get to work without a long drive.
Things to do. Most outings from Iliff mean a longer drive, and they lean toward open country and water. Pawnee Creek is a river, and Prewitt Reservoir is a reservoir for fishing and boating. North Sterling State Park is a protected area built around a large lake. Fort Sidney is a historic fort, a stop for anyone curious about the area's frontier past.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
What people in Logan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Logan County had 7,773 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 62°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sterling weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Logan County
- School District No. Re-1 ValleySchool district313FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters298
- Northeastern Junior CollegeTwo-year college188
- Sterling Regional MedcenterGeneral hospital161FTE
- Devonshire Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities95
- Trinidad BenhamDried foods merchant wholesalers60
- Simon - SterlingPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction50
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 883 people in all across the county; Iliff has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Iliff’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 Logan County and the Sterling, CO metro.
Iliff home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Iliff$307,767
- 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.
- Iliff5
Zip codes with a Iliff address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Iliff — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.