Rifle, Colorado.
Typical home $497,529 (+3.5% in a year), asking rent $2,575 . Glenwood Springs, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,539 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,914 +4%
- $480,615$497,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $127,305 +34%
- $370,224$497,529 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.
- Rifle$2,611
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Rifle, CO rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rifle, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Rifle is a city of 10,437 people in Rio Blanco County. Half its households earn more than $80,000 a year and half less, against $65,473 across Rio Blanco County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% 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 shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rifle is a small city with a young population for the county, and its households earn more than the county's typical household. A good share of residents own their homes, though homes here are not cheap. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with little rain or snow through the year, so the climate is dry by the numbers.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in town are Garfield School District No. Re, Walmart and King Soopers. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the usual trip to work takes a fair while.
Things to do. Rifle Gap State Park and Harvey Gap State Park are both protected areas a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Rifle Falls State Park, another protected area, and to Sunlight Ski Area for winter days on the slopes.
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- 3,796households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 7%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 37° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 55°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rifle Garfield County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rifle
- Garfield School District No. Re-2School district731FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters264
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores121
- Johnson ConstructionUtility line, construction45
- Xcel EnergyElectric power distribution23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 453 people in all. School districts come 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
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of RifleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rifle’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 Rio Blanco County and the Glenwood Springs, CO metro.
Rifle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rifle$497,529
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Rifle 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.
- Rifle26.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rifle82
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rifle19
Zip codes with a Rifle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rifle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.