FIPS 08005, CO

Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 39.65, -104.34.

Assembled 2026-10-02. Read the brief.

Typical home value
$504,567
as of August 2026
  • 93rd pct · 194th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Home value, one year
-2.2%
as of August 2026
  • 9th pct · 2,770th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
Typical rent
$1,821
as of August 2026
  • 74th pct · 361st of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
Jobs
339,426
as of 2026 Q1-01
  • 97th pct · 86th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
Average weekly wage
$1,929
as of 2026 Q1-01
  • 98th pct · 62nd of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
Years of wages per home
5.0
  • 65th pct · 1,069th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3

Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.

A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.

Home values #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-02

Typical home $504,567 (Aug 2026), -2.2% over one year, +3.7% over five

  • 93rd pct · 194th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
ItemValueDistance
Arapahoe County$504,567 · -2.2% 1-yr

Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.

Rents #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-02

Typical rent $1,821/mo (Aug 2026), -1.4% over one year; price-to-rent 23.1

  • 74th pct · 361st of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).
ItemValueDistance
Arapahoe County$1,821/mo · -1.4% 1-yr

Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).

What the typical home costs to carry #

unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02There is no home value, mortgage rate or wage figure to put in the formula.

Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.

Jobs & wages #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-02

339,426 jobs at 27,362 employers (2026 Q1); +0.6% jobs and +4.6% average weekly wage over the year

  • 97th pct · 86th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
ItemValueDistance
Arapahoe County339,426 jobs · $1,929/wk · +0.6% YoY
BLS QCEW, all ownerships, third month of the quarter. A location quotient of 1.00 means this county has the national share of its jobs in that sector; 2.00 means twice it. A withheld row is a BLS disclosure code N: the cell is absent, not zero.
NAICS sectorJobsAvg weekly wageLocation quotientJobs over the year
Health care and social assistance56,592$1,3831.11+8.0%
Professional and technical services36,238$2,8341.55-5.5%
Retail trade30,307$9640.92-3.1%
Accommodation and food services24,673$6360.81-2.8%
Construction24,369$2,0211.37+3.4%
Finance and insurance22,657$3,6601.64+1.4%
Administrative and waste services21,549$1,3941.12-4.7%
Information16,213$3,6512.59+8.5%
Wholesale trade13,947$3,0591.07-2.1%
Other services9,593$1,2290.95-2.4%
Management of companies8,321$3,8301.46-6.7%
Manufacturing8,242$1,8060.30-1.2%

BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.

Water #

unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02County 08005 has no centroid in the offline manifest yet, and the water report is a search around a point.

Banks and federal dollars #

unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02Deposits and federal obligations is unavailable: Deposits and federal obligations did not answer within 8000 ms

Federal obligations #

unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02Deposits and federal obligations is unavailable: Deposits and federal obligations did not answer within 8000 ms

USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.

National context, not this county #

currentretrieved 2026-10-02

These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.

The national indicator set, unfiltered by place.
SeriesLatestAs ofChange
Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ftnot publishednot published
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ftnot publishednot published
Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft16.502026-09-30-11.7%
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ftnot publishednot published
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s5,170.002026-02-05-25.3%
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · %71.302026-10-01+0.1%
Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks258,700.002026-08-01-0.4%
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU10,513,167.002023-01-01-13.5%
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships6.002026-09-22-14.3%
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box6,830.002026-08-01+7.4%
US diesel retail price · $ per gallonunavailablenot published
WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrelunavailablenot published
30-year fixed mortgage rate · %unavailablenot published
Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of unitsunavailablenot published
Building permits, annual rate · thousands of unitsunavailablenot published
Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100unavailablenot published
Unemployment rate · %unavailablenot published
US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millionsunavailablenot published
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millionsunavailablenot published

The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.

What changed #

currentretrieved 2026-10-02

FIPS 08005, CO: 11 findings, 1 at a watch level and 10 noted

  1. watchFIPS 08005, CO's typical home value is -2.2% against a year earlier, a watch level here: typical home value below a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.

    Period 2026-08.
    Show the arithmetic
    • test: home.yoyPct = -2.2224184173040245 < 0

    arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level

  2. noteFIPS 08005, CO's average weekly wage was 4.6% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

    Period 2026 Q1.
    Show the arithmetic
    • +4.6 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
    • the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed

    BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published

  3. noteFIPS 08005, CO's covered employment was 0.6% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

    Period 2026 Q1.
    Show the arithmetic
    • +0.6 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
    • the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed

    BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published

  4. noteFIPS 08005, CO's typical asking rent rose 0.3% from $1,816 in July 2026 to $1,821 in August 2026, on Zillow ZORI.

    Period 2026-08.
    Show the arithmetic
    • +0.3% = (1820.6381861303182 - 1815.7858053229795) / 1815.7858053229795 × 100
    • 1820.6381861303182 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
    • 1815.7858053229795 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-07

  5. noteFIPS 08005, CO's average weekly wage of $1,929 ranks 62nd of 3,221 US counties, against a median of $1,039.

    Period 2026 Q1.
    Show the arithmetic
    • 98 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage

    position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

Read all 11 findings in the full brief

Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.

Sources #

  • publishedTIGERwebU.S. Census Bureauopen the source
    tigerWMS_Current · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    County_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv · period 2026-08 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv · period 2026-08 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedZillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    County_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv · period 2026-08 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · price-to-rent = $504,567 / ($1,821 × 12) = 23.1
  • publishedQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    area 08005, all ownerships, all industries · period 2026-Q1 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    area 08005, NAICS sectors, private ownership · period 2026-Q1 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · momentum = momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%); terms home value 1-yr change -2.2% / ±10% × 0.3, rent 1-yr change -1.4% / ±10% × 0.15, jobs over-the-year change +0.6% / ±3% × 0.3, avg weekly wage over-the-year change +4.6% / ±6% × 0.25
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)
  • estimateQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns
  • estimateZillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns

Citations

  • U.S. Census Bureau. TIGERweb. series tigerWMS_Current. https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). series County_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. period 2026-08. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/County_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). series Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. period 2026-08. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). series County_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv. period 2026-08. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zori/County_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: price-to-rent = $504,567 / ($1,821 × 12) = 23.1.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. series area 08005, all ownerships, all industries. period 2026-Q1. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2026/1/area/08005.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. series area 08005, NAICS sectors, private ownership. period 2026-Q1. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2026/1/area/08005.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: momentum = momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%); terms home value 1-yr change -2.2% / ±10% × 0.3, rent 1-yr change -1.4% / ±10% × 0.15, jobs over-the-year change +0.6% / ±3% × 0.3, avg weekly wage over-the-year change +4.6% / ±6% × 0.25.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%).
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. https://www.bls.gov/cew/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns.

What these numbers are not

  • County 08005 is not in the offline place manifest yet (21 of about 3,235 counties are), so its name and centroid have to come from upstream at request time.
  • FRED did not answer for the 30-year mortgage rate (MORTGAGE30US), so the monthly payment estimate is omitted rather than computed from a stale rate.
  • Mortgage rate not loaded (FRED), so the payment estimate is missing.
  • The indicator block is the NATIONAL set, filtered only by lens. None of these series is keyed to this place: they are United States, gauge, single-state or port series and they are shown as context, not as this place's own readings.

Page assembled 2026-10-02T01:37:26.722Z. Place identity tables have never been pulled: names, centroids and memberships come from the offline seed, which is complete for states and metropolitan areas and partial for counties.