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Housing in Colorado

A typical Colorado home is worth roughly $69,000

Typical home value
$69K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,298
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Colorado?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Colorado

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$273,000
Typical Colorado home $69K

That covers a typical Colorado home, with $204K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$440
Loan $340Tax $70Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $490 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Kansas typical property tax (1.29% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

83% of Colorado households own their home

Half of Colorado’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 83%Rent 17%

Kansas: 67% own.

1938
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,298
median property tax bill · KS $2,798

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $930

Renters already here pay a median of $913.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$710
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,130
4 bedrooms$1,320
17%
of households rent · KS 33%
13
renter households
$913
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Ellsworth County, KS): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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