Wiley, Colorado.
Typical home $191,710 (-1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$544 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,869 -1%
- $193,579$191,710 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,639 +12%
- $171,071$191,710 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.
- Wiley$1,006
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Wiley, CO fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wiley, Bent County, Colorado
Wiley is a town of 437 people in Bent County. Half its households earn more than $60,114 a year and half less, against $50,179 across Bent County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Bent County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bent County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wiley is a small town in Bent County, on the plains of southeastern Colorado. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers get very hot by July; the year brings little rain or snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, government, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Bent County, the largest workplaces include Las Animas School District, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and McClave School District. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. John Martin Reservoir State Park is a protected area built around a large reservoir, a longer drive away. Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, also a longer drive away, is a protected area that preserves a painful chapter of the nineteenth century. Fort Lyon, an old fort, lies in the same direction and is likewise a longer drive.
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- 161households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Bent County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bent County had 1,172 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 62°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lamar Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bent County
- Las Animas School District No. Re-1School district143FTE
- Colorado Coalition for the HomelessSubstance abuse facilities, residential59
- McClave School District No. Re-2School district45FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 59 people in all across the county; Wiley has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wiley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Bent County.
Wiley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wiley$191,710
- 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.
Zip codes with a Wiley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wiley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.