Ward, Colorado.
Typical home $523,929 (+0.9% in a year). Boulder, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,286 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,802 +1%
- $519,127$523,929 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,206 +7%
- $490,723$523,929 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.
- Ward$2,750
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 53 years.
Typical home values in Ward, CO rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ward, Boulder County, Colorado
Ward is a town of 128 people in Boulder County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% 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 people in Boulder County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ward is a very small mountain town, home to far fewer people than most towns in the county. Residents are older than in most of the country, and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Winters are long and cold, summers stay cool even at their warmest, and a good deal of the year's moisture arrives as snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services, with others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Boulder County, some of the largest workplaces are University of Colorado Boulder, the St. Vrain Valley School District and Boulder Community Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Stapp Lakes, a lake, and Barker Meadow Reservoir are both a short drive away, and the Wild Basin Ranger Station, a tourist attraction, is also close by. Rocky Mountain National Park is a longer drive away, as is Eldora Mountain Resort, a ski area.
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What people in Boulder County 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 February, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 68° and lows near 42°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boulder West weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boulder County
- University of Colorado BoulderUniversity or college9,660
- St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1JSchool district4,060FTE
- Boulder Valley School District No. Re2School district3,834FTE
- BAE System Inc. Space and Mission SystemAeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing1,476
- Boulder Community HospitalGeneral hospital1,384FTE
- Good Samaritan Medical CTRGeneral hospital903FTE
- Corden Pharma ColoradoEnzyme proteins, pharmaceutical use, manufacturing787
- Medtronic CovidienLaser equipment, electromedical, manufacturing673
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 252 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 33,235 people in all across the county; Ward has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Ward’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Ward home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ward$523,929
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ward10
Zip codes with a Ward address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ward — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.