Lamar, Colorado.
Typical home $179,522 (-0.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$521 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,510 -1%
- $181,032$179,522 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,982 +22%
- $147,540$179,522 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.
- Lamar$942
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Lamar, CO fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado
Lamar is a city of 7,687 people in Prowers County. Half its households earn more than $53,188 a year and half less, against $53,508 across Prowers County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Prowers County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lamar is a small city and the largest community in Prowers County, with a younger population than many small towns on the plains. Incomes are close to the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect. Most households own their homes, and the typical home value is modest. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Lamar are Lamar School District No. Re, Walmart and Prowers Medical Center. Jobs across Prowers County dipped last year, and unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year earlier. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Big Sandy Creek is a river a short drive away. A longer drive leads to John Martin Reservoir State Park, a protected area built around a reservoir, and to Fort Lyon, a fort with a long history on this stretch of the plains. Winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, summers are hot, and the climate is on the dry side.
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- 3,008households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 10 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prowers County had 4,692 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 63°. About 30 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lamar weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lamar
- Lamar School District No. Re-2School district213FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters189
- Prowers Medical CenterCritical access hospital164FTE
- JBS Live Pork Colorado FarmsHog and pig farming151
- Lamar Community CollegeTwo-year college130
- River Valley Rehabilitation and Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities68
- Dragon Products LamarTank trailer, liquid and dry bulk, manufacturing65
- C.F. Maier CompositesAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 572 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lamar’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 Prowers County.
Lamar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lamar$179,522
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lamar listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Lamar21.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lamar41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lamar11
Zip codes with a Lamar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lamar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.