Saguache, Colorado.
Typical home $258,955 (-0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$737 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,874 -1%
- $260,829$258,955 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,701 +8%
- $239,254$258,955 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.
- Saguache$1,359
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Saguache, CO fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saguache, Saguache County, Colorado
Saguache is a town of 539 people in Saguache County. Unemployment in Saguache County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 5.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saguache County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saguache is a very small town in the San Luis Valley, the sort of place where people tend to know one another. Incomes across Saguache County run modest, and the typical home costs well below what many homeowners in larger Colorado towns would expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights well below freezing, while summers are warm and mild enough that July highs stay comfortable. Very little rain and melted snow falls over a year, so the air and the landscape are dry.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, or in government. Across Saguache County, the largest workplaces include Center Consolidated School District, Prime Packing and Aspen Produce. Unemployment across the county has edged up over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. In town, the Saguache County Museum is a local museum right in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Saguache Creek, a river, and to Baca National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. The Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, another protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Saguache County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saguache County had 1,670 jobs in 2025, 5.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 50°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saguache weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saguache County
- Center Consolidated School District No. 26 Jt. of the countSchool district104FTE
- Prime PackingProduce, fresh, merchant wholesalers77
- Moffat School District No. 2 in the county of Saguache andSchool district53FTE
- Aspen ProduceVegetables, fresh, merchant wholesalers42
- Mountain Valley School District No. Re 1School district41FTE
- Power Zone EquipmentOil measuring and dispensing pumps manufacturing28
- Ponderosa PartnershipBeef cattle ranching or farming23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 170 people in all across the county; Saguache has none of its own. 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saguache’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 Saguache County.
Saguache home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saguache$258,955
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saguache16
Zip codes with a Saguache address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saguache — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Saguache
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81149 | Saguache | 1,183 | — | $266,479 |
| 81155 | Villa Grove | 228 | — | $341,864 |