Zip lookup · CO

80241
Thornton, Colorado.

Thornton, Adams County, CO · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro · population 34,082

What it costs per month · 80241 $2,639/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,224 (+87%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $10,892 -2%
$513,606$502,714 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $19,767 +4%
$482,946$502,714 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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 80241 $2,639 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 80241$2,639
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 86 years.

Typical home values in zip 80241 fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 80241 rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 80241 runs $1,512/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,836 in Oct 2023.

That is $3,433 a month against $1,921 rent: a $2,639 mortgage payment, plus $256 property tax and $538 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 80241

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $3,433 Renting $1,921 Mortgage only $2,639
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$3,433
  • Renting$1,921
  • Mortgage only$2,639

Property tax · $256/mo 0.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Adams County, CO

Insurance & upkeep · $538/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Thornton, CO — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,921 as of Sep 2026
+0.7%year on year
Typical home value $502,714 as of Sep 2026
-2.1%year on year

Asking rent — 80241

Against the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro and the national benchmark.

$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 80241 $1,921 Denver $1,900 United States $1,932
$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 80241$1,921
  • Denver$1,900
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 80241

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 80241 $502,714 Denver $555,487 United States $366,157
$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 80241$502,714
  • Denver$555,487
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 74 zips in range — sorting picks from all 74.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
2.1 80233 Denver 48,441 $1,652 $456,249
2.9 80234 Denver 29,356 $1,802 $511,507
3.5 80602 Brighton 44,783 $2,934 $635,104
4.3 80023 Broomfield 27,143 $2,085 $808,143
4.9 80640 Henderson 13,818 $2,168 $493,643
5.0 80260 Denver 34,677 $1,551 $390,706
5.1 80229 Denver 55,092 $1,633 $412,771
5.8 80031 Westminster 35,584 $2,264 $494,545
6.3 80020 Broomfield 54,201 $2,196 $562,146
8.1 80030 Westminster 15,427 $1,355 $429,728
8.1 80601 Brighton 42,127 $1,974 $485,601
8.4 80221 Denver 39,718 $1,865 $439,399
8.8 80021 Broomfield 36,555 $1,919 $541,782
9.1 80003 Arvada 35,976 $1,772 $512,835
9.2 80516 Erie 39,048 $2,772 $706,458
9.5 80026 Lafayette 32,701 $2,200 $663,139
9.8 80216 Denver 17,330 $1,910 $344,399
9.9 80514 Dacono 6,721 — $490,578
9.9 80022 Commerce City 61,452 $2,504 $462,343
10.8 80005 Arvada 28,459 $2,547 $628,274
11.2 80027 Louisville 34,127 $2,284 $815,044
11.2 80238 Denver 30,575 $2,113 $748,298
11.7 80239 Denver 44,956 $1,732 $417,095
11.7 80211 Denver 38,177 $2,186 $688,365
11.7 80207 Denver 21,542 $2,389 $572,664
11.7 80205 Denver 34,571 $2,010 $554,302
11.7 80603 Brighton 16,811 $3,168 $499,413
11.9 80004 Arvada 33,700 $1,833 $585,520
11.9 80212 Denver 20,746 $2,487 $708,733
12.1 80530 Frederick 6,242 — $493,590

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.