Stratton, Colorado.
Typical home $209,529 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$659 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,725 +4%
- $200,804$209,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,458 +39%
- $151,071$209,529 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.
- Stratton$1,100
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Stratton, CO rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stratton, Kit Carson County, Colorado
Stratton is a town of 656 people in Kit Carson County. Half its households earn more than $61,583 a year and half less, against $70,259 across Kit Carson County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Kit Carson County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kit Carson County work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stratton is a small town on the eastern Colorado plains, where everyone is likely to know a good number of their neighbors. Household incomes run below the county's, and the share of people living below the poverty line is small. Winters are cold, with plenty of snow, and summers get hot, while the year brings only modest moisture overall.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, with others in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in shops. Across Kit Carson County, the largest workplaces include Burlington Public School District No. RE, Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital and Safeway. Unemployment in the county has held steady compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The one nearby place on the list is the Elitch Gardens Carousel, a tourist attraction that is a longer drive away. It makes for a day trip rather than an afternoon out, so most everyday outings are likely to stay closer to home on the plains.
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- 289households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Kit Carson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kit Carson County had 3,051 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stratton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kit Carson County
- Burlington Public School District No. RE-6JSchool district101FTE
- KIT Carson County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
- M A MortensonConstruction73
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores66
- Frontline Resource ManagementNursing care facilities42
- Arriba-Flagler Consolidated School District No. 20School district41FTE
- School District No. R-4 in the county of Kit Carson and StatSchool district35FTE
- Bethune School District No. R- 5School district29FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 246 people in all across the county; Stratton has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stratton’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 Kit Carson County.
Stratton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stratton$209,529
- 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 Stratton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stratton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.