Platteville, Colorado.
Typical home $518,481 (-0.5% in a year). Greeley, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,306 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,798 -1%
- $521,278$518,481 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,869 +8%
- $480,611$518,481 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.
- Platteville$2,721
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 46 years.
Typical home values in Platteville, CO fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Platteville, Weld County, Colorado
Platteville is a town of 2,955 people in Weld County. Half its households earn more than $74,500 a year and half less, against $97,097 across Weld County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Weld County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Platteville is a small town in Weld County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a much higher share of owners than is typical across the country. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and the typical home is valued well above what many homeowners across the country would expect to pay. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July, with a dry year of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and commutes tend to be long, so many people travel some distance to their jobs. Across Weld County, some of the largest workplaces are JBS Greeley Fed Beef, Vestas Blades America and North Colorado Medical Center.
Things to do. Outdoor time is close at hand: St. Vrain State Park, a protected area, and the St. Vrain Creek and Big Thompson River are all a short drive away. For a bigger outing, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a stadium, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,026households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Weld County had 123,486 jobs in 2025, 3.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 55°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longmont Ese weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Weld County
- JBS Greeley Fed BeefBeef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants3,761
- GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and StaSchool district2,757FTE
- Vestas Blades AmericaWind turbines manufacturing1,100
- Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-4School district1,040FTE
- North Colorado Medical CenterGeneral hospital946FTE
- Chevron Rockies RegionPetroleum, crude, production877
- Aims Community CollegeUniversity or college785
- Uchealth Greeley HospitalGeneral hospital683FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 284 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,879 people in all across the county; Platteville has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Platteville’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 Weld County and the Greeley, CO metro.
Platteville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Platteville$518,481
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Platteville 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.
- Platteville39.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Platteville29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Platteville5
Zip codes with a Platteville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Platteville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.