Trinidad, Colorado.
Typical home $226,964 (-6.1% in a year), asking rent $1,194 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,786 -6%
- $241,749$226,964 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,025 +14%
- $198,939$226,964 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.
- Trinidad$1,191
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Trinidad, CO fell 6.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado
Trinidad is a city of 8,329 people in Las Animas County. Half its households earn more than $52,273 a year and half less, against $52,074 across Las Animas County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Las Animas County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trinidad is a small city in southern Colorado, and its people are somewhat older than in many American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes sit close to the county's, though a good number of households live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn warm, with fairly little rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Among the largest workplaces in town are Trinidad State College, Mt. San Rafael Hospital and Walmart. Commutes are short, and unemployment in the county has risen over the past year while the number of jobs has fallen.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Trinidad History Museum and the Baca House and Outbuilding are museums, and the Jaffa Opera House is a theatre. A short drive away, Trinidad Lake State Park and Fishers Peak State Park offer protected open country. Sugarite Canyon State Park is a longer drive out, for those who want a full day in the hills.
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- 3,726households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Las Animas County had 4,634 jobs in 2025, 3.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 61°. About 55 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Trinidad weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Trinidad
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters240
- Trinidad State CollegeUniversity or college182
- Mt. San Rafael HospitalCritical access hospital157FTE
- Trinidad School District 1 in the county of Las Animas andSchool district113FTE
- CentennialHomes for the aged with nursing care100
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores80
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 447 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of TrinidadRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of TrinidadRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trinidad’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 Las Animas County.
Trinidad home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trinidad$226,964
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Trinidad 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.
- Trinidad16.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Trinidad133
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Trinidad15
Zip codes with a Trinidad address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trinidad — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.