Manzanola, Colorado.
Typical home $178,121 (-6.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$495 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,673 -7%
- $190,794$178,121 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,605 +10%
- $162,516$178,121 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.
- Manzanola$935
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Manzanola, CO fell 6.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manzanola, Otero County, Colorado
Manzanola is a town of 341 people in Otero County. Half its households earn more than $36,010 a year and half less, against $54,037 across Otero County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Otero County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Otero 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manzanola is a very small town in Otero County, Colorado, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes here are modest in price. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow and little rain or melted snow over the year; summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government and in manufacturing. Across Otero County, the largest workplaces include Otero College, the Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center and Lewis Bolt and Nut Company. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Apishapa River and the Crowley School, a museum, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, a fort, and to the Koshare Indian Museum.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Otero County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Otero County had 6,030 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 60°. About 25 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Ford Southeast weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Otero County
- Otero CollegeTwo-year college408
- Lewis Bolt and Nut CompanyBolts, metal, manufacturing297
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Arkansas Valley Regl MED CTRCritical access hospital237FTE
- East Otero School District No. R1School district219FTE
- Rocky Ford School District No. R2School district122FTE
- Blue Stem VillageHomes for the elderly with nursing care80
- DeBourgh ManufacturingLockers manufacturing68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,041 people in all across the county; Manzanola has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manzanola’s 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 Otero County.
Manzanola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manzanola$178,121
- 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.
- Manzanola7
Zip codes with a Manzanola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manzanola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.