Mancos, Colorado.
Typical home $515,783 (+1.7% in a year). Durango, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,479 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,749 +2%
- $507,034$515,783 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,921 +18%
- $435,863$515,783 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.
- Mancos$2,707
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Mancos, CO rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mancos, Montezuma County, Colorado
Mancos is a town of 1,196 people in Montezuma County. Half its households earn more than $65,833 a year and half less, against $65,244 across Montezuma County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mancos is a small town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July; the year brings little rain beyond what falls as melted snow. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and professional and business services. Across Montezuma County, the largest workplaces include the Montezuma-Cortez School District, Southwest Memorial Hospital and the National Park Service. Job numbers across the county slipped over the past year, and unemployment there is higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Mancos River runs in and beside town, and the Mancos Theatre is also close at hand. A short drive away is Mancos State Park, a protected area for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Mesa Verde National Park, the best known place nearby, and to Cliff Palace, an archaeological site.
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- 528households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents 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 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 50°. About 57 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mancos 1SW weather station, 2 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; Mancos has two 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mancos’ 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 Montezuma County and the Durango, CO metro.
Mancos home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mancos$515,783
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mancos listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Mancos23.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mancos44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mancos8
Zip codes with a Mancos address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mancos — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.