Wellington, Colorado.
Typical home $464,971 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $2,335 . Fort Collins, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,131 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,760 -0%
- $466,731$464,971 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,218 +7%
- $433,753$464,971 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.
- Wellington$2,441
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 50 years.
Typical home values in Wellington, CO fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellington, Larimer County, Colorado
Wellington is a town of 11,047 people in Larimer County. Half its households earn more than $107,017 a year and half less, against $93,765 across Larimer County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Larimer County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellington is a small town in Larimer County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where household incomes run above the county's. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the population is younger than in many towns of its size. Winters are cold and snowy, with a December that stays well below freezing at night, and summers turn warm in July, though the area gets little rain and melted snow over a year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops and the building trades. Across Larimer County, some of the largest workplaces are Poudre School District R, Poudre Valley Hospital and Thompson School District R. The drive to work is a fairly long one, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has edged up over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Spring Creek, a river a short drive away, offers a place to be near water. Lory State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, suits those who want open ground to walk. Horsetooth Reservoir, also a longer drive off, adds a lake for time outdoors.
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- 4,170households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Larimer County had 171,281 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 58°. About 48 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Collins East weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Larimer County
- Poudre School District R-1School district4,316FTE
- Poudre Valley HospitalGeneral hospital2,153FTE
- Thompson School District R-2JSchool district2,153FTE
- Medical Center of the RockiesGeneral hospital1,402FTE
- BroadcomSemiconductor devices manufacturing1,307
- Hach CompanyLaboratory analytical instruments manufacturing1,300
- Woodward Lincoln CampusSemidiesel engines manufacturing1,250
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,180
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 254 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,761 people in all across the county; Wellington has none of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wellington’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 Larimer County and the Fort Collins, CO metro.
Wellington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellington$464,971
- 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 Wellington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 52 days — 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.
- Wellington32.53%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wellington95
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wellington25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Wellington$474,195
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Wellington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.