Lake George, Colorado.
Typical home $419,941 (-0.7% in a year). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,152 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,054 -1%
- $422,994$419,941 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,963 +10%
- $382,978$419,941 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.
- Lake George$2,204
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Lake George, CO fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lake George, Park County, Colorado
The Census does not count Lake George on its own, so the figures here are Park County's. Half the county's households earn more than $103,670 a year and half less; 5% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 86% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Park County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Park County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lake George sits in Park County, high in the mountains of central Colorado, where winters are bitterly cold and snow is heavy from late autumn into spring. Summers are warm by comparison, and the area is not especially wet. Across Park County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are past middle age.
Work. Across Park County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, building trades, or restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Commutes are long for many, and a fair share of residents work from home. Unemployment is a little higher than a year earlier, and the number of jobs has eased slightly.
Things to do. Eleven Mile State Park is a protected area a short drive away, so it is the closest outing for those who want to be outdoors. Farther off, the South Platte River is a river a longer drive away, and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, also a longer drive away, is a protected area set aside for its fossils.
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- 8,988households
- 51.2median age
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What people in Park County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Park County had 3,117 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near -1°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 46°. About 50 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake George Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Park County
- Park County School District No. Re-2School district130FTE
- Platte Canyon School District No. 1 of the county of ParkSchool district127FTE
- Z-golf Food and Beverage ServicesBanquet halls with catering staff59
- Central RegionSolid waste collection38
- Charj HoldingsHardware stores23
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 120 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Park County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Park County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Lake George home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lake George$419,941
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lake George listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Lake George20.69%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lake George35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lake George5
Zip codes with a Lake George address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lake George — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.