Milliken, Colorado.
Typical home $443,747 (-0.7% in a year), asking rent $2,288 . Greeley, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,126 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,333 -1%
- $447,080$443,747 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,584 +9%
- $408,162$443,747 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.
- Milliken$2,329
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Milliken, CO fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milliken, Weld County, Colorado
Milliken is a town of 8,386 people in Weld County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milliken is a small town in Weld County, home to a young population compared with much of the country. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than across the county as a whole, and renting is uncommon. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than you might expect for an area so close to larger cities. Winters are cold and snowy, with the coldest weather in December, while July brings hot summer afternoons and the year stays on the dry side.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. The largest workplaces in Milliken include the Weld County school district, Sodexo at Weld County, a food service contractor, and Power Motive, a wholesaler of construction machinery and equipment. Commutes are long, which suggests many people travel to jobs outside town, and a modest share work from home. Across Weld County, unemployment has risen a little over the past year, though the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. The Big Thompson River is a short drive away, and St. Vrain Creek and the Little Thompson River run in or beside town. For a longer outing, Horsetooth Reservoir and St. Vrain State Park are each a longer drive away, and Boyd Lake State Park is another protected area that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 3,192households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 14%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 December, with highs near 43° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 59°. About 35 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greeley Unc weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Milliken
- Weld County School District No. Re-5JSchool district423FTE
- Sodexo at Weld CountyFood service contractors37
- Power MotiveConstruction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 64 people in all. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milliken’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 Weld County and the Greeley, CO metro.
Milliken home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milliken$443,747
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Milliken listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Milliken40.79%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milliken53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Milliken14
Zip codes with a Milliken address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milliken — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.