Vail, Colorado.
Typical home $1,737,075 (+4.4% in a year), asking rent $3,870 . Edwards, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$5,612 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $72,473 +4%
- $1,664,602$1,737,075 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $469,211 +37%
- $1,267,863$1,737,075 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.
- Vail$9,117
- 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 Vail, CO rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vail, Eagle County, Colorado
Vail is a town of 4,835 people in Eagle County. Half its households earn more than $98,893 a year and half less, against $104,096 across Eagle County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Eagle County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vail is a small mountain town in Eagle County, home to an older population than most places, with a median age that sits well toward the upper end for a US town. Household incomes run a little below the county's, while homes and rents are costly, and more residents rent than across many American towns. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with December the coldest month, and summers are mild and pleasant, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in town are The Vail, the ski operation, and Vail Valley Medical Center, along with the Grand Hyatt Vail. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Eagle County has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. Vail Ski Resort sits in or beside town, as do Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, a botanical garden, and the Colorado Snowsports Museum. A short drive away, Gore Creek is a river that is easy to reach for a walk or a day by the water. Beaver Creek Resort, another ski area, is also a short drive away.
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- 2,483households
- 70%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Eagle County had 35,602 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 28° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 42°. About 189 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vail weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vail
- The VailAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations1,085
- Vail Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital629FTE
- Grand Hyatt VailEgegh271
- GH TeamSki lodges and resorts with accommodations103
- SSI VentureSporting goods stores86
- King SoopersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores78
- Kiewit Infrastructure CoHighway construction67
- Manor Vail LodgeSki lodges and resorts with accommodations66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,851 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vail’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Eagle County and the Edwards, CO metro.
Vail home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vail$1,737,075
- 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 5 Vail listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Vail19.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vail161
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vail27
Zip codes with a Vail address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vail — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.