Ordway, Colorado.
Typical home $158,359 (-6.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$381 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,584 -6%
- $168,943$158,359 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,326 -2%
- $161,684$158,359 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.
- Ordway$831
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ordway, CO fell 6.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ordway, Crowley County, Colorado
Ordway is a town of 1,066 people in Crowley County. Unemployment in Crowley County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crowley County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ordway is a small town in Crowley County, in the dry farming country of southeastern Colorado. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in the country as a whole, and household incomes across Crowley County sit below the national level. Homes here cost well under what they do in much of the country. Winters are cold, with highs that stay in the chilly range in January and lows that dip well below freezing. Summers are hot, and the town gets a modest amount of snow and little moisture overall.
Work. Many people in Ordway work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Crowley County, the biggest workplace is the Crowley County School District. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. A noticeable number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Lake Meredith is a lake a short drive away, and the Crowley School, now a museum, is also close. Farther afield, Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site is a fort that takes a longer drive to reach, as is the Koshare Indian Museum. Together they make for a pleasant day trip into the history of the region.
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- 569households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Crowley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crowley County had 1,122 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 61°. About 14 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ordway Ene weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crowley County
- Crowley County School District No. Re-1-JSchool district66FTE
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
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ordway’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 Crowley County.
Ordway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ordway$158,359
- 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.
- Ordway17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ordway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ordway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.