Lewis, Colorado.
Typical home $443,464 (+2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,273 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,023 +3%
- $431,441$443,464 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,023 +15%
- $384,441$443,464 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.
- Lewis$2,328
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Lewis, CO rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lewis, Montezuma County, Colorado
Lewis, in Montezuma County, had 257 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Montezuma County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montezuma County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lewis is a very small community in Montezuma County, in the southwest corner of Colorado. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would suggest, so buying in can stretch a household's budget. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to the freezing mark, while summers turn properly warm by July.
Work. Residents of Lewis mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Montezuma County, the largest workplaces include the Montezuma-Cortez School District, Walmart and Southwest Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year earlier, and there are somewhat fewer jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. The Anasazi Heritage Center, a museum, and McPhee Reservoir are both a short drive away. Mesa Verde National Park, a longer drive away, is the best known place nearby, and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, a protected area, makes another trip further afield.
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What people in Montezuma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montezuma County had 9,321 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 55°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yellow Jacket 4NE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montezuma County
- Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1School district377FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters286
- Southwest Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital271FTE
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores111
- Dolores School District No. Re-4ASchool district109FTE
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior94
- AramarkFood service contractors89
- Mancos School District Re-6School district87FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,426 people in all across the county; Lewis has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lewis’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Montezuma County.
Lewis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lewis$443,464
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Lewis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lewis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.