Superior, Colorado.
Typical home $805,196 (-0.8% in a year), asking rent $2,271 (+3.4%). Boulder, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,017 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,662 -1%
- $811,858$805,196 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,342 +5%
- $764,855$805,196 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.
- Superior$4,226
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 67 years.
Typical home values in Superior, CO fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Superior, CO rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Superior runs $3,172/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,742 in Oct 2023.
That is $5,443 a month against $2,271 rent: a $4,226 mortgage payment, plus $355 property tax and $862 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Superior
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$5,443
- Renting$2,271
- Mortgage only$4,226
Property tax · $355/mo 0.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Boulder County, CO
Insurance & upkeep · $862/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 Superior, Boulder County, Colorado
Superior is a town of 13,094 people in Boulder County. Half its households earn more than $159,434 a year and half less, against $103,994 across Boulder County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Boulder County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Superior is a town in Boulder County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be well educated, with a four-year degree common among adults, and the median age sits in the mid-range for a US town. Very few households live below the poverty line, and homes and rents are priced on the high side.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in shops. Within the town, some of the largest workplaces are Target, Safeway and Kisco. Many people work from home, and the typical commute is moderate, while across Boulder County unemployment is a little higher than a year ago and there are slightly fewer jobs than before.
Things to do. The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Folsom Field, a stadium, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a theatre, and the Denver Art Museum. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow, while summers turn warm.
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- 5,049households
- 79%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 34%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boulder County had 191,487 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 57°. About 93 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boulder weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Superior
- TargetDiscount department stores230
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores89
- KiscoAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 369 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Superior’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Boulder County and the Boulder, CO metro.
Superior home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Superior$805,196
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Superior listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Superior31.35%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Superior61
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Superior14
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Superior address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Superior — 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.