Mosca, Colorado.
Typical home $331,794 (+6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,044 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,193 +6%
- $312,601$331,794 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,061 +36%
- $243,733$331,794 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.
- Mosca$1,742
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Mosca, CO rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mosca, Alamosa County, Colorado
The Census does not count Mosca on its own, so the figures here are Alamosa County's. Half the county's households earn more than $55,397 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 56% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Alamosa County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Alamosa County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mosca sits in Alamosa County in the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with frequent snow and temperatures often below freezing. Summers are warm, and the area receives less rain and melted snow than most of the country. Across Alamosa County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the community is a quiet one where neighbors tend to know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Shops and professional and business services also employ people here. Jobs grew slightly in the county last year, while unemployment is somewhat higher than it was a year earlier. Commutes are shorter than the typical commute across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, one of the best known parks in the state, is a longer drive away and offers towering dunes. Zapata Falls, a waterfall, is a short drive away. San Luis State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away and suits those who enjoy open land and quiet walks.
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- 6,648households
- 33.2median age
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Alamosa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alamosa County had 8,181 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 52°. About 48 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Great Sand Dunes Np & Preserve weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alamosa County
- San Luis Valley REG MED CenterGeneral hospital554FTE
- Valley-Wide Health SystemsCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient550
- Adams State UniversityUniversity or college534
- Alamosa School District No. Re-11JSchool district324FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters303
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores116
- Life Care Centers of AmericaSkilled nursing facilities93
- Evergreen Nursing HomeSkilled nursing facilities78
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,573 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Alamosa County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Alamosa County.
Mosca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mosca$331,794
- 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.
- Mosca9
Zip codes with a Mosca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mosca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.