Meeker, Colorado.
Typical home $388,501 (+2.5% in a year). Craig, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,144 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,424 +2%
- $379,077$388,501 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,718 +25%
- $310,783$388,501 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.
- Meeker$2,039
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Meeker, CO rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Meeker is a town of 2,374 people in Rio Blanco County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Rio Blanco County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Meeker is a small town in Rio Blanco County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Poverty is lower than many places would expect, and a typical home costs a good deal, though county household incomes are modest by comparison. Winters are cold, with January days that stay near freezing and nights well below it, while July afternoons turn hot. Precipitation, rain and melted snow together, is light for the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels, government, and the transport and utilities trades. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Meeker School District Re1, the Bureau of Land Management and White River Electric Association. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment is higher than it was a year ago. A fair number of residents work from home, and a good many adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The waters around Meeker are the main draw for time outdoors, and all of them are a longer drive away. The North Fork White River and the South Fork White River are the best known, and both are rivers. Lake Avery is a reservoir, and Rifle Falls State Park is a protected area for a day out in the countryside.
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- 1,192households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rio Blanco County had 2,861 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 50°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meeker Airport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Meeker
- Meeker School District Re1School district93FTE
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior28
- White River Electric AssociationDistribution of electric power26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 26 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Meeker’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Rio Blanco County and the Craig, CO metro.
Meeker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Meeker$388,501
- 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.
- Meeker17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Meeker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Meeker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.