Palisade, Colorado.
Typical home $563,936 (+1.4% in a year), asking rent $1,571 . Grand Junction, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,722 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,757 +1%
- $556,179$563,936 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,873 +26%
- $449,063$563,936 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.
- Palisade$2,960
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Palisade, CO rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Palisade, Mesa County, Colorado
Palisade is a town of 2,565 people in Mesa County. Unemployment in Mesa County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Palisade is a small town in Mesa County, with a population well below that of most towns in the region. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers run hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to very little over a year, so the climate is dry. Typical home values and rents are on the higher side, and incomes in the county run somewhat below what the state's higher-cost areas see.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Mesa County, the largest workplaces include the Mesa County Valley School District, St. Marys Hospital & Medical Center and Colorado Mesa University. Job numbers across the county have been roughly flat over the past year, and unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Close to town, Cross Orchards Historic Site is a museum and James M. Robb – Colorado River State Park is a protected area along the river, both a short drive away. The CAF Rocky Mountain Wing Museum is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Colorado National Monument is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,297households
- 9%below the poverty line
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mesa County had 66,902 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 65°. About 13 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palisade weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mesa County
- Mesa County Valley School District No. 51School district2,785FTE
- St. Marys Hospital & Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,453FTE
- Colorado Mesa UniversityUniversity or college1,182
- Community HospitalGeneral hospital1,039FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs936
- West Star Aviation - GJTAviation maintenance and repair services588
- FCI ConstructorsCommercial building construction476
- Willow Creek CompaniesConstruction management, oil and gas pipeline471
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 134 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,745 people in all across the county; Palisade has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Palisade’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 Mesa County and the Grand Junction, CO metro.
Palisade home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Palisade$563,936
- 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 Palisade listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Palisade41.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Palisade50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Palisade6
Zip codes with a Palisade address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Palisade — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.