Morrison, Colorado.
Typical home $699,900 (-1.9% in a year), asking rent $2,913 . Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,782 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,447 -2%
- $713,347$699,900 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,660 +7%
- $652,240$699,900 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.
- Morrison$3,674
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Morrison, CO fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado
Morrison is a town of 396 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $122,083 a year and half less, against $110,656 across Jefferson County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morrison is a very small town where residents are older than in most places, and incomes run above the county's, with few households living below the poverty line. Homes here are costly, and renting is not cheap either. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow through the season, while July brings warm days and the year's precipitation stays fairly modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jefferson County, the largest workplaces include the Jefferson County School District, Lockheed Martin's Waterton Campus and St. Anthony Hospital. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Red Rocks Park and Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a park and an open-air theatre, are in or beside town. A short drive away are Dinosaur Ridge, a museum, and Heritage Square, an amusement park. Denver Art Museum and Denver Zoo are a longer drive away.
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- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 247,248 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 49°. About 81 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Evergreen weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Jefferson County School District No. R-1School district10,331FTE
- Lockheed Martin Corporation Waterton Campus (1004)Developing and producing prototypes for complete guided missiles and space vehicles5,390
- BAE System Inc. Space and Mission SystemAeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing1,893
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Littleton Deer Crk Cnyn (1003)1,566
- Colorado School of MinesUniversity or college1,509
- St. Anthony HospitalGeneral hospital1,399FTE
- Terumo BCT - LakewoodBlood transfusion equipment manufacturing1,365
- Encore ElectricElectric contracting1,272
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 54,216 people in all across the county; Morrison has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailVery high
- WildfireVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morrison’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Jefferson County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Morrison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morrison$699,900
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Morrison listings, and the typical home goes pending in 28 days — 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.
- Morrison30.16%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Morrison110
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Morrison30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Morrison$869,042
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Morrison99.37%
Zip codes with a Morrison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morrison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.