Peetz, Colorado.
Typical home $223,064 (+1.0% in a year). Sterling, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$643 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,257 +1%
- $220,808$223,064 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,077 +21%
- $183,988$223,064 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.
- Peetz$1,171
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Peetz, CO rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Peetz, Logan County, Colorado
Peetz is a town of 213 people in Logan County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Logan County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Peetz is a very small town on the plains of northeastern Colorado, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes run below the county's typical level, and a fair number of households live on tight budgets. Winters are cold, with the coldest days in January, and summers are hot, peaking in July. The year brings little rain and melted snow, so the air and the land are dry.
Work. Residents of Peetz work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining. Some work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Logan County, some of the largest workplaces are the Valley school district, Sterling Regional Medcenter and Northeastern Junior College. Joblessness in the county is higher than it was a year ago, though the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. North Sterling State Park is a protected area with a reservoir, a longer drive away. Also a longer drive away are Fort Sidney, a historic fort, and Pawnee Creek, a river. The Lodgepole Opera House, a theatre, is another longer drive from town.
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- 13%below the poverty line
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Logan County had 7,773 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 57°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sidney Municipal Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Logan County
- School District No. Re-1 ValleySchool district313FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters298
- Northeastern Junior CollegeTwo-year college188
- Sterling Regional MedcenterGeneral hospital161FTE
- Devonshire Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities95
- Trinidad BenhamDried foods merchant wholesalers60
- Simon - SterlingPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction50
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 883 people in all across the county; Peetz has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Peetz’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 Logan County and the Sterling, CO metro.
Peetz home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Peetz$223,064
- 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 Peetz address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Peetz — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.