Lochbuie, Colorado.
Typical home $457,024 (-2.7% in a year), asking rent $2,800 . Greeley, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,121 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,874 -3%
- $469,897$457,024 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,366 +6%
- $430,658$457,024 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.
- Lochbuie$2,399
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 58 years.
Typical home values in Lochbuie, CO fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lochbuie, Weld County, Colorado
Lochbuie is a town of 8,088 people in Weld County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Weld County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 26 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lochbuie is a small, young town in Weld County, with a median age lower than in many Colorado communities. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, a much higher share than across most of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn hot, and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in the building trades, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Weld County, some of the largest workplaces are JBS Greeley Fed Beef, Vestas Blades America and North Colorado Medical Center. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, commutes tend to be long, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Denver area is a longer drive away and has much of what people head out for. Empower Field at Mile High is a stadium, the Denver Art Museum is a museum, and the Denver Zoo is a zoo. Closer to the outdoors, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 2,940households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Weld County had 123,486 jobs in 2025, 3.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 58°. About 34 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brighton Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Weld County
- JBS Greeley Fed BeefBeef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants3,761
- GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and StaSchool district2,757FTE
- Vestas Blades AmericaWind turbines manufacturing1,100
- Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-4School district1,040FTE
- North Colorado Medical CenterGeneral hospital946FTE
- Chevron Rockies RegionPetroleum, crude, production877
- Aims Community CollegeUniversity or college785
- Uchealth Greeley HospitalGeneral hospital683FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 284 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,879 people in all across the county; Lochbuie 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 colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lochbuie’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 Weld County and the Greeley, CO metro.
Lochbuie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lochbuie$457,024
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lochbuie 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.
- Lochbuie37.71%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lochbuie38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lochbuie9
Zip codes with a Lochbuie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lochbuie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.