Kirk, Colorado.
Typical home $278,893 (+2.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$642 (+78%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,460 +2%
- $273,433$278,893 since Sep 2025
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.
- Kirk$1,464
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kirk, CO rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kirk, Yuma County, Colorado
Kirk, in Yuma County, had 61 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Yuma County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yuma County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kirk is a very small community in Yuma County, in the northeastern part of Colorado. Winters are cold, with the lowest temperatures in January, while summers are hot, peaking in July. Snow is a regular part of the year, and the area receives a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Yuma County, unemployment has risen somewhat over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged upward recently.
Things to do. Beecher Island, an archaeological site, lies a longer drive away and is one of the area's notable historic places. Bonny Lake State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away, as is the North Fork Arikaree River.
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What people in Yuma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yuma County had 4,047 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 60°. About 30 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Joes weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yuma County
- Wray Community District HospitalCritical access hospital156FTE
- Yuma 1 School DistrictSchool district124FTE
- Wray RD-2 School DistrictSchool district113FTE
- Yuma District HospitalCritical access hospital91FTE
- Wray Community Long Term CareSkilled nursing facilities79
- Five Rivers Cattle FeedingBeef cattle feedlots55
- Idalia RJ-3 School DistrictSchool district34FTE
- Quality Irrigation - YumaAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 538 people in all across the county; Kirk has none 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kirk’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Yuma County.
Kirk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kirk$278,893
- 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 Kirk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kirk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.