to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,308 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Living in Springfield, Baca County, Colorado
Springfield is a town of 1,325 people in Baca County. Half its households earn more than $48,295 a year and half less, against $46,215 across Baca County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Baca County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springfield is a small town in Baca County, in the far southeastern corner of Colorado. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, other services, and banks, insurance and property. Across Baca County, Southeast Colorado Hospital and the Springfield school district are among the largest workplaces. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Comanche National Grassland, a protected area of open prairie, is a longer drive away. So are Bear Creek, a river, and the Colorado Millennial Site, an archaeological site. Winters are cold and summers are hot, in a dry climate where moisture is scarce all year.
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- 650households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 9 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baca County had 1,164 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 61°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Springfield Comanche weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baca County
- Southeast Colorado HospitalCritical access hospital111FTE
- Springfield School District No. Re-4School district62FTE
- Walsh School District No. Re-1School district36FTE
- LP INDTint and dye preparations, household-type, manufacturing33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 33 people in all across the county; Springfield has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Springfield’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.
Springfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Springfield15
Zip codes with a Springfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.