Limon, Colorado.
Typical home $274,817 (+3.1% in a year). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$738 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,258 +3%
- $266,558$274,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,367 +10%
- $250,450$274,817 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.
- Limon$1,442
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Limon, CO rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Limon, Elbert County, Colorado
Limon is a town of 2,043 people in Elbert County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Elbert County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Elbert 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Limon is a small town on the eastern plains of Colorado, in Elbert County. Its residents skew older than the typical American community, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest. The year brings only a modest amount of rain and melted snow, as is common on the high plains.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, the building trades and shops. Across Elbert County, the Elizabeth School District and Walmart are among the largest workplaces, along with Safeway. Few people work from home, and the county has added jobs over the past year even as unemployment there has edged up.
Things to do. The World's Wonder View Tower is a museum a short drive away, and it is the one nearby stop worth planning around. Beyond that, Limon is a quiet place where open plains country sets the pace.
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- 682households
- 8%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Elbert County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Elbert County had 5,138 jobs in 2025, 5.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 54°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Limon Wsmo weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Elbert County
- Elizabeth School DistrictSchool district362FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters194
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores90
- Big Sandy School District No. 100JSchool district62FTE
- Twin Rivers DeliveryCourier services57
- School District No. C-2 in the county of Elbert and State ofSchool district53FTE
- ViaflexTank lining contractors52
- Elbert School District No. 200School district50FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 529 people in all across the county; Limon has none 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Limon’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 Elbert County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Limon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Limon$274,817
- 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.
- Limon16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Limon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Limon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.