Las Animas, Colorado.
Typical home $104,968 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$282 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,354 +4%
- $100,614$104,968 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $19,931 -16%
- $124,899$104,968 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.
- Las Animas$551
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Las Animas, CO rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado
Las Animas is a city of 2,300 people in Bent County. Half its households earn more than $51,875 a year and half less, against $50,179 across Bent County; 36% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Bent County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Las Animas is a small city in Bent County, on the plains of southeastern Colorado. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, though a large part of the town's residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with chilly nights, while summers are hot, and the town sees some snow each winter but little rain or melted snow over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Bent County, the largest workplaces include the Las Animas School District, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and the McClave School District. Unemployment in the county has risen a little compared with a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are Fort Lyon, an old fort, and Horse Creek, a river. A longer drive brings you to Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, a fort that is one of the best known places in the area. John Martin Reservoir and its state park are also a longer drive away and offer water and open country.
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- 1,060households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 36%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bent County had 1,172 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 63°. About 16 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Las Animas weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bent County
- Las Animas School District No. Re-1School district143FTE
- Colorado Coalition for the HomelessSubstance abuse facilities, residential59
- McClave School District No. Re-2School district45FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 59 people in all across the county; Las Animas has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Las Animas’ 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 Bent County.
Las Animas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Las Animas$104,968
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 9 Las Animas 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.
- Las Animas11.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Las Animas30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Las Animas5
Zip codes with a Las Animas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Las Animas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.