Wiggins, Colorado.
Typical home $420,966 (-1.0% in a year). Fort Morgan, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,112 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,255 -1%
- $425,222$420,966 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,331 +11%
- $380,635$420,966 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.
- Wiggins$2,210
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Wiggins, CO fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wiggins, Morgan County, Colorado
Wiggins is a town of 1,401 people in Morgan County. Half its households earn more than $91,681 a year and half less, against $73,278 across Morgan County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Morgan County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wiggins is a small town on Colorado's eastern plains, home to a young community with a lower median age than is typical for the country. Household incomes run above the county's, though a noticeable share of residents still live below the poverty line, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the snow and rainfall add up to a dry climate.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, the building trades, and manufacturing. Across Morgan County, some of the biggest employers are Cargill Meat Solutions, Leprino Foods and Western Sugar Cooperative. Commutes are long, and a modest share of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Kiowa Creek, a river, is a short drive away and is the closest place to get outdoors. Jackson Lake State Park, a protected area with a lake, is a longer drive away. Fort Morgan, a fort and the county's larger town, is also a longer drive away.
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- 571households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morgan County had 13,229 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 60°. About 23 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Morgan weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morgan County
- Cargill Meat SolutionsBeef produced in slaughtering plants2,232
- School District No. Re-3 Fort MorganSchool district551FTE
- Leprino Foods - FTMCheese manufacturing366
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters293
- Western Sugar CooperativeGranulated beet sugar manufacturing196
- School District No. Re-2 BrushSchool district184FTE
- St. Elizabeth HospitalGeneral hospital176FTE
- Eben Ezer Lutheran Care CenterNursing homes168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,932 people in all across the county; Wiggins has one 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wiggins’ 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 Morgan County and the Fort Morgan, CO metro.
Wiggins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wiggins$420,966
- 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 4 Wiggins listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Wiggins26.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wiggins34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wiggins8
Zip codes with a Wiggins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wiggins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.