Wolcott, Colorado.
. Edwards, CO metro.
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 Wolcott, Eagle County, Colorado
Wolcott, in Eagle County, had 20 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Eagle County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Eagle County work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wolcott is a small community in Eagle County, Colorado, set in the Rocky Mountains, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are long and cold, with heavy snowfall, and summers are mild and warm. The community sits in a landscape of rivers, forests, and high peaks.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels, and entertainment, or in schools, hospitals, and social care. Others work in shops or in the building trades. The mix reflects the service and construction work common across the wider mountain region.
Things to do. Beaver Creek Resort, a ski area, is a short drive away. White River National Forest, a protected area of wild land, is a longer drive away. Vail Ski Resort, another ski area, is also a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
What people in Eagle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Eagle County had 35,602 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 28° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 42°. About 189 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vail weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eagle County
- The VailAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations1,085
- Eagle County School District No. Re 50School district1,011FTE
- The VailAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations946
- Vail Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital629FTE
- Grand Hyatt VailEgegh271
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort and SpaBeave172
- Roaring Fork139
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,848 people in all across the county; Wolcott 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
- LightningRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of WolcottRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wolcott’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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. More on Eagle County and the Edwards, CO metro.
Wolcott 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.
- Wolcott11
Zip codes with a Wolcott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wolcott — 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.