Jamestown, Colorado.
Typical home $533,247 (-0.6% in a year). Boulder, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,234 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,307 -1%
- $536,554$533,247 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,314 +3%
- $519,933$533,247 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.
- Jamestown$2,799
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Jamestown, CO fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jamestown, Boulder County, Colorado
Jamestown is a town of 256 people in Boulder County. Half its households earn more than $149,375 a year and half less, against $103,994 across Boulder County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Boulder County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boulder County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jamestown is a very small mountain town in Boulder County, home to far fewer people than most towns. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are priced above what is typical in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing highs and lows well below freezing, while July brings pleasantly mild summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Boulder County, the largest workplaces include the University of Colorado Boulder, the Boulder Valley School District and Boulder Community Hospital. The commute is a long one, and unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, with somewhat fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Rocky Mountain National Park, a national park a longer drive away, is the best known of the places nearby, with Bear Lake and Lily Lake among its quieter spots to walk beside the water. Grand Lake, a reservoir, is another longer drive away. For a day indoors, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
What people in Boulder County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boulder County had 191,487 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 74° and lows near 44°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Allenspark 3NW weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boulder County
- University of Colorado BoulderUniversity or college9,660
- St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1JSchool district4,060FTE
- Boulder Valley School District No. Re2School district3,834FTE
- BAE System Inc. Space and Mission SystemAeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing1,476
- Boulder Community HospitalGeneral hospital1,384FTE
- Good Samaritan Medical CTRGeneral hospital903FTE
- Corden Pharma ColoradoEnzyme proteins, pharmaceutical use, manufacturing787
- Medtronic CovidienLaser equipment, electromedical, manufacturing673
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 252 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 33,235 people in all across the county; Jamestown has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jamestown’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 Boulder County and the Boulder, CO metro.
Jamestown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jamestown$533,247
- 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.
Zip codes with a Jamestown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jamestown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.