Kit Carson, Colorado.
Typical home $171,576 (+6.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$623 (+225%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,434 +6%
- $161,142$171,576 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,743 +61%
- $106,833$171,576 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.
- Kit Carson$901
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Kit Carson, CO rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kit Carson, Cheyenne County, Colorado
Kit Carson is a town of 255 people in Cheyenne County. Unemployment in Cheyenne County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cheyenne County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kit Carson is a very small town on the open plains of eastern Colorado, home to only a handful of people. Few residents live below the poverty line, and homes here cost far less than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow through the season, while summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a dry year overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in the building trades and in government. Across Cheyenne County, the largest workplaces include Keefe Memorial Hospital and the Cheyenne County School District. Unemployment across the county is slightly higher than a year ago, and the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before. A small number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The one nearby place on the list is Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, a protected area a longer drive away. It preserves the site of a nineteenth-century attack and is a place for quiet reflection and learning about the region's history.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Cheyenne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cheyenne County had 718 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 59°. About 16 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kit Carson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cheyenne County
- M A MortensonConstruction151
- Keefe Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital52FTE
- Cheyenne County School District No. Re-5School district34FTE
- Kit Carson School District No. R-1School district26FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 151 people in all across the county; Kit Carson has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kit Carson’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 Cheyenne County.
Kit Carson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kit Carson$171,576
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kit Carson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kit Carson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.