Mead, Colorado.
Typical home $548,339 (-3.4% in a year). Greeley, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,275 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $19,256 -3%
- $567,595$548,339 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,775 +2%
- $536,564$548,339 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.
- Mead$2,878
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mead, CO fell 3.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mead, Weld County, Colorado
Mead is a town of 4,781 people in Weld County. Half its households earn more than $125,357 a year and half less, against $97,097 across Weld County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mead is a small town in Weld County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with modest rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels or in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Mead are Boulder Scientific Company, which makes specialty chemical compounds, and Zak Dirt, a road construction firm. Commutes are fairly long, and a noticeable number of people work from home.
Things to do. St. Vrain State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and St. Vrain Creek, also close by, is a river good for time outdoors. For a longer drive, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History offers a museum visit, and Horsetooth Reservoir is a larger body of water to spend a day beside.
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- 1,978households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 18%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 January, with highs near 44° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 55°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longmont Ese weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mead
- Boulder Scientific CompanyOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing132
- Zak DirtRoad construction131
- Total Concrete ServicesChimney, concrete, construction51
- Industrial Concrete ServicesChimney, concrete, construction46
- NiwotAutomotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing44
- Electric ContractorsElectric contracting39
- Trident SecurityAlarm systems sales combined with installation, repair, or monitoring services39
- N Line ElectricElectrical contractors33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 566 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mead’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.
Mead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mead$548,339
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Mead 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.
- Mead44.39%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mead41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mead7
Zip codes with a Mead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.