Leadville, Colorado.
Typical home $498,679 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $2,198 . Edwards, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,557 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,986 +2%
- $488,692$498,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,499 +25%
- $400,179$498,679 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.
- Leadville$2,617
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Leadville, CO rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado
Leadville is a city of 2,633 people in Lake County. Unemployment in Lake County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then other services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leadville is a small city high in the Colorado mountains, with a population on the younger side of middle age and a large share of adults who hold a four-year degree. Homes and rents here are expensive, and the town's poverty rate is a real part of the picture alongside that. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, while summers stay mild and cool; the year is fairly dry apart from what falls as snow.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by other services, shops and professional and business services. Across Lake County, the largest workplaces include the Lake County School District, St Vincent General Hospital and Safeway. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up. Commutes are moderate, and some people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Arkansas River runs past, and the Tabor Opera House and the National Mining Hall of Fame, both museums, are close by. A short drive away are the Leadville National Fish Hatchery, a park, and the Mount Massive Wilderness, a protected area. For skiing, Copper Mountain is a longer drive away.
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- 1,201households
- 65%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 2,963 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 29° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 71° and lows near 39°. About 157 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leadville Lake County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- Lake County School District No. R-1School district178FTE
- St Vincent General HospitalCritical access hospital111FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores65
- Cutting Edge WoodworkingCabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing39
- Legacy Electrical ContractorsElectrical contractors20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 124 people in all across the county; Leadville has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leadville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Lake County and the Edwards, CO metro.
Leadville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leadville$498,679
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Leadville 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.
- Leadville23.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Leadville87
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leadville14
Zip codes with a Leadville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leadville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Leadville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80461 | Leadville | 6,957 | $2,198 | $497,233 |
| 81251 | Twin Lakes | 423 | — | $646,811 |