Laporte, Colorado.
Typical home $551,585 (+0.4% in a year). Fort Collins, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,421 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,417 +0%
- $549,168$551,585 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,849 +12%
- $493,736$551,585 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.
- Laporte$2,895
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Laporte, CO rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laporte, Larimer County, Colorado
Laporte, in Larimer County, had 2,409 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Larimer County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Larimer County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laporte is a small community just outside Fort Collins, and its pace is quieter than the city next door. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, since many residents travel out of town for work. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Larimer County, some of the largest workplaces are Poudre School District, Poudre Valley Hospital and Broadcom. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Horsetooth Reservoir and Lory State Park, a reservoir and a protected area, are both a short drive away and suit walks and time by the water. The North Fork Cache la Poudre River, also a short drive off, is another place to get outdoors. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow each year, while summers turn warm, so the outdoor season stretches from late spring into early autumn.
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- 939households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Larimer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Larimer County had 171,281 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 59°. About 51 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Collins weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Larimer County
- Poudre School District R-1School district4,316FTE
- Poudre Valley HospitalGeneral hospital2,153FTE
- Thompson School District R-2JSchool district2,153FTE
- Medical Center of the RockiesGeneral hospital1,402FTE
- BroadcomSemiconductor devices manufacturing1,307
- Hach CompanyLaboratory analytical instruments manufacturing1,300
- Woodward Lincoln CampusSemidiesel engines manufacturing1,250
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,180
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 254 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,761 people in all across the county; Laporte has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laporte’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 Larimer County and the Fort Collins, CO metro.
Laporte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laporte$551,585
- 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.
- Laporte10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Laporte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laporte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.