Northglenn, Colorado.
Typical home $449,770 (-2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,515 (-1.0%). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,089 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,766 -2%
- $460,536$449,770 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,213 +4%
- $430,558$449,770 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.
- Northglenn$2,361
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 79 years.
Typical home values in Northglenn, CO fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Northglenn, CO fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Northglenn runs $1,557/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,752 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,072 a month against $1,515 rent: a $2,361 mortgage payment, plus $229 property tax and $482 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Northglenn
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,072
- Renting$1,515
- Mortgage only$2,361
Property tax · $229/mo 0.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Adams County, CO
Insurance & upkeep · $482/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Northglenn, Adams County, Colorado
Northglenn is a city of 38,131 people in Adams County. Half its households earn more than $84,030 a year and half less, against $94,571 across Adams County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Northglenn was 5.0% in August 2026, and Adams County had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Northglenn is a city in Adams County, on the north side of the Denver area. Its residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the community. Household incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and snowy, with a drier year overall than many parts of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Northglenn are Vantor, a mapping services company, the Malley Transitional Care Center, a skilled nursing facility, and the Lowe's home center. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Close to home, Clear Creek and Sand Creek are rivers a short drive away, and Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a stadium, is also a short drive. A longer drive brings the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Zoo, and winters call for a warm coat whenever you head out.
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- 14,570households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 249,734 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 59°. About 45 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Northglenn weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northglenn
- VantorMapping services, geophysical627
- Malley Transitional Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities210
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter121
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores120
- Boondocks Food and FunAmusement parks114
- Allegro Support Office91
- Saela DenverPest control75
- AutoZoneAutomotive car parts retailer73
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,190 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Northglenn’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 Adams County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Northglenn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northglenn$449,770
- 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 2 Northglenn listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 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.
- Northglenn40.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Northglenn21
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Northglenn100
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Northglenn32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Northglenn$449,221
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Northglenn99.76%
Zip codes with a Northglenn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northglenn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.