Rangely, Colorado.
Typical home $229,891 (+4.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$536 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,008 +4%
- $220,883$229,891 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,382 +18%
- $194,509$229,891 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.
- Rangely$1,207
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Rangely, CO rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rangely, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Rangely is a town of 2,299 people in Rio Blanco County. Half its households earn more than $66,389 a year and half less, against $65,473 across Rio Blanco County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Rio Blanco County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rangely is a small town in Rio Blanco County in northwestern Colorado, with a younger population than most of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cold, with January highs barely above freezing and lows near zero, and snow falls through the season. Summers turn hot by July, and the year stays dry overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, shops, and the building trades. Rangely District Hospital, Colorado Northwestern Community College and the Rangely School District are among the town's largest workplaces. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people have a short trip to work, with few working from home. Across the county, unemployment has risen over the past year and there are slightly fewer jobs than before.
Things to do. Kenney Reservoir is a short drive away and is the nearest spot for time by the water. Farther out, a longer drive leads to Yellow Creek, a river, and to Mantle's Cave, an archaeological site.
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- 946households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 10 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rio Blanco County had 2,861 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 55°. About 30 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rangely 1E weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rangely
- Rangely District HospitalCritical access hospital141FTE
- Colorado Northwestern Community CollegeTwo-year college129
- Rangely School District RE4School district90FTE
- Big D's PumpingExcavation contractors48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 48 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rangely’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 Rio Blanco County.
Rangely home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rangely$229,891
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Rangely listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Rangely20.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rangely25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rangely5
Zip codes with a Rangely address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rangely — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.