Stratmoor, Colorado.
Typical home $315,913 (-1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,869 (+4.9%). Colorado Springs, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$791 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,802 -1%
- $320,715$315,913 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,000 +3%
- $306,913$315,913 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.
- Stratmoor$1,658
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Stratmoor, CO fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Stratmoor, CO rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Stratmoor runs $234/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $440 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,103 a month against $1,869 rent: a $1,658 mortgage payment, plus $107 property tax and $338 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Stratmoor
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,103
- Renting$1,869
- Mortgage only$1,658
Property tax · $107/mo 0.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for El Paso County, CO
Insurance & upkeep · $338/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Stratmoor, El Paso County, Colorado
Stratmoor, in El Paso County, had 6,518 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $65,000 a year and half less, against $90,363 across El Paso County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in El Paso County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% 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 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. Stratmoor is a small community in El Paso County, Colorado, with a young population compared with many places. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes and rents here cost a good deal. Winters are cold and snowy, with the coldest weather in December, while summers turn warm in July, and the year brings modest rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and only a small number work from home, so most people travel to a workplace, usually a moderate drive away. Across El Paso County, the largest workplaces include Amazon, Memorial Health System and Penrose Hospital, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Sand Creek runs in or beside town, and Garden of the Gods, a protected area, is a short drive away. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is also a short drive away, as is Seven Falls, a waterfall. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, a museum, is another short drive for a quieter afternoon.
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- 2,206households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. El Paso County had 307,977 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 58°. About 32 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in El Paso County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,670
- Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of ESchool district3,578FTE
- Memorial Health SystemGeneral hospital3,467FTE
- Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso anSchool district3,410FTE
- El Paso County Colorado School District 49School district3,000FTE
- Penrose HospitalGeneral hospital2,316FTE
- The Broadmoor HotelResort hotels without casinos2,200
- CommonSpirit HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals2,166
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 499 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 65,459 people in all across the county; Stratmoor has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stratmoor’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 El Paso County and the Colorado Springs, CO metro.
Stratmoor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stratmoor$315,913
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Stratmoor listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Stratmoor37.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stratmoor43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stratmoor11
Zip codes with a Stratmoor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stratmoor — 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.