Parlin, Colorado.
Typical home $501,876 (+4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$229 (+10%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $23,232 +5%
- $478,644$501,876 since Sep 2025
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.
- Parlin$2,634
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Parlin, CO rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parlin, Gunnison County, Colorado
The Census does not count Parlin on its own, so the figures here are Gunnison County's. Half the county's households earn more than $84,527 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 67% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Gunnison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gunnison 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parlin sits in Gunnison County, where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Typical home values here are high, and the county has a fair number of renters, so the housing mix leans toward ownership. Winters are colder and snowier than in most of the country, while summers are mild and warm enough for outdoor life.
Work. Many residents of Gunnison County work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Professional and business services and the building trades also employ people across the county. Jobs have dipped somewhat in recent times, though unemployment has eased. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical commute is fairly brief.
Things to do. The Taylor River is a river a longer drive away, popular with those who like to spend time by moving water. Monarch Ski Area, also a longer drive away, is a ski area for winter visitors. Fossil Ridge Wilderness, a protected area a longer drive away, offers a quieter setting for walks and time outdoors.
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- 8,494households
- 37.5median age
- 65%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Gunnison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gunnison County had 9,439 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 44°. About 54 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cochetopa Creek weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gunnison County
- Gunnison Valley HospitalCritical access hospital328FTE
- Gunnison Watershed School District Re1JSchool district297FTE
- The VailAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations252
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores167
- WalmartDiscount department stores118
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture66
- Elevation Hotel and SpaResort hotels without casinos52
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 835 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- AvalanchesVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Gunnison County, 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 Gunnison County.
Parlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parlin$501,876
- 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.
Zip codes with a Parlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parlin — 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.