Silver Plume, Colorado.
Typical home $386,762 (-1.3% in a year). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$877 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,995 -1%
- $391,757$386,762 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,362 -1%
- $390,124$386,762 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.
- Silver Plume$2,030
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Silver Plume, CO fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado
Silver Plume is a town of 207 people in Clear Creek County. Unemployment in Clear Creek County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clear Creek County work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Silver Plume is a very small town in the Colorado Rockies, in Clear Creek County, with a typical home value that sits well above what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect for a place this size. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm by day without turning hot. Precipitation through the year is modest, and much of it arrives as snow.
Work. Across Clear Creek County, jobs grew over the past year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier. Residents of Silver Plume work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces across the county are Clear Creek Skiing, the Clear Creek school district and Safeway.
Things to do. The Hotel de Paris, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Arapaho National Forest, a protected area, and Arapahoe Basin, a ski area. Echo Lake Park, a lake, is also a short drive away, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a theatre, is a longer drive.
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What people in Clear Creek County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clear Creek County had 3,430 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 49°. About 106 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Georgetown weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clear Creek County
- Clear Creek SkiingSkiing facilities, downhill, without accommodations324
- Clear Creek School District No. Re-1School district129FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores94
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores49
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 467 people in all across the county; Silver Plume has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- AvalanchesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Silver Plume’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Clear Creek County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Silver Plume home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Silver Plume$386,762
- 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 Silver Plume address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Silver Plume — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.