Parker, Colorado.
Typical home $672,792 (-1.3% in a year), asking rent $2,211 (-1.6%). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,662 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,158 -1%
- $681,950$672,792 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,157 +5%
- $638,635$672,792 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.
- Parker$3,531
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 67 years.
Typical home values in Parker, CO fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Parker, CO fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Parker runs $2,351/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,674 in Oct 2023.
That is $4,562 a month against $2,211 rent: a $3,531 mortgage payment, plus $310 property tax and $720 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Parker
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$4,562
- Renting$2,211
- Mortgage only$3,531
Property tax · $310/mo 0.55% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Douglas County, CO
Insurance & upkeep · $720/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 Parker, Douglas County, Colorado
Parker is a town of 58,512 people in Douglas County. Half its households earn more than $133,369 a year and half less, against $149,594 across Douglas County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Parker was 4.1% in August 2026, and Douglas County had 1.4% 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. Parker is a sizeable suburban town in Douglas County, south of Denver, where most homes are lived in by their owners and renters are fewer than in many places. Household incomes sit below the county's, though poverty is low, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Typical homes here cost a good deal, and rents are high as well.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. The largest workplaces in Parker include AdventHealth Parker Hospital, the surgical implant maker Paragon 28 and Walmart. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Daniels Park is a park a short drive away, and the rest of the nearby choices lie in and around Denver, a longer drive off. The Denver Art Museum, a museum, and Empower Field at Mile High, a stadium, are among the best known, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a theatre venue for concerts. Winters here are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers turn warm by July.
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- 21,789households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 149,592 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 55°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Parker weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Parker
- Adventhealth Parker HospitalGeneral hospital565FTE
- Paragon 28Surgical implants manufacturing401
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters395
- Apex Waste SolutionsGarbage collection services352
- BrightviewLandscaping services338
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer334
- TargetDiscount department stores268
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores221
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,342 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of ParkerRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parker’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 Douglas County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Parker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parker$672,792
- 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 Parker listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 days — 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.
- Parker40.28%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Parker40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parker620
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Parker151
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Parker$687,802
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Parker98.77%
Zip codes with a Parker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Parker
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80134 | Parker | 80,302 | $2,343 | $665,489 |
| 80138 | Parker | 36,895 | $1,994 | $708,324 |