La Veta, Colorado.
Typical home $371,360 (-0.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,070 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,986 -1%
- $373,346$371,360 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,206 +19%
- $312,154$371,360 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.
- La Veta$1,949
- 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 La Veta, CO fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Veta, Huerfano County, Colorado
La Veta is a town of 862 people in Huerfano County. Half its households earn more than $52,804 a year and half less, against $52,526 across Huerfano County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Huerfano County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Huerfano County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Veta is a very small town, and its residents are considerably older than in most American communities. Incomes are close to the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal more than many would expect for a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the town gets modest precipitation overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants and hotels, shops, and professional and business services also employing people. Across Huerfano County, the largest workplaces include Spanish Peaks Regional Health, La Veta School District Re and Huerfano School District Re. Getting to work is quick, with a commute shorter than in most places.
Things to do. The Spanish Peaks Wilderness, a protected area, is a short drive away. Lathrop State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Fort Garland, one of the old forts in the region, is also a longer drive away.
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- 16%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
What people in Huerfano County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huerfano County had 1,850 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 58°. About 92 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walsenburg Northwest weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huerfano County
- Spanish Peaks Regional HealthCritical access hospital178FTE
- La Veta School District Re-2School district48FTE
- SieteCivil roadway48
- Huerfano School District Re-1School district43FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores36
- San Isabel Electric Association- Bear CreekDistribution of electric power24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 108 people in all across the county; La Veta 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Veta’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 Huerfano County.
La Veta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Veta$371,360
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 La Veta listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- La Veta14.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Veta79
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Veta9
Zip codes with a La Veta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Veta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.