to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,308 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Living in Walden, Jackson County, Colorado
Walden is a town of 606 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 5.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walden is a very small town in Jackson County, Colorado, and life here is quiet and close-knit, with the kind of scale where people tend to know one another. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, while summers are mild and pleasant. Precipitation is light overall, so this is a dry high-country setting more than a wet one.
Work. Across Jackson County, the largest workplaces include North Park School District R, Fox Ranch Management Company, a beef cattle ranching operation, and the Forest Service. Jobs across the county were fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment has risen a little compared with a year earlier. A modest share of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive reaches the Rawah Wilderness and the Mount Zirkel Wilderness, both protected areas, along with Lake Agnes, a lake that suits a day away from town.
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Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 38°. About 67 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walden weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- North Park School District R-1School district35FTE
- Fox Ranch Management CompanyBeef cattle ranching or farming26
- Spring Creek ConstructionConstruction management, commercial and institutional building23
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 49 people in all across the county; Walden has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walden’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.
Walden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Walden18
Zip codes with a Walden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walden — 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.