Counties / Colorado / Broomfield County

Broomfield County, CO

FIPS 08014 · population 76,304 · part of Denver, CO

$629k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$629k
▼ 1.3% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$2,035
▼ 0.9% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
3.9%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$2,089
market rent is 0.97x the standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

The annual signals disagree
FHFA five-year cumulative+41.0%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06−1.3%FHFA HPI2025+1.6%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$665k
Surveyed gross rent$2,126
Rent burden 30%+44.2%
Median year built2002
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
4.3%vacant
33,202estimated housing units
Occupied tenure37.3% renter
owner 62.7%renter 37.3%
Structure mix65.6% single-family
Single-family 65.6%20+ units 19.4%Mobile home 2.0%Other 13.0%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs40,748▼ 2.8% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments3,572annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$2,295▲ 5.1% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorProfessional and business services29.3% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS−2.8%WEEKLY WAGE+5.1%Professional and business services29.3%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Broomfield's decision tension is a high entry value against modest pre-cost income: in Zillow’s 2026-06 county observation, the median home value was $628,946, median asking rent was $2,035 per month, and reported gross yield was 3.88%. Cash-flow-led and leverage-sensitive buyers should be cautious until parcel costs are known. FHFA’s separately dated 2025 repeat-transaction HPI rose 1.64%. It is not a dollar home value or a directly comparable Zillow growth rate; the methods and vintages should not be blended.

02Housing economics

The $2,035 is measured asking rent, whereas HUD's $2,089 two-bedroom FMR is a payment standard, not a rent estimate; it cannot substitute for market rent or revise yield. The effective property-tax rate is 0.60%, with median annual tax of $4,007. Those carrying costs sit outside gross yield and need parcel-level assessment, exemption, insurance, financing, vacancy and repair inputs before a net-return conclusion. No unit-level rent distribution or operating-cost evidence is published, preventing an expense-adjusted comparison among candidate properties.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com's 2026-06 MLS evidence shows median listing prices down 4.32% year over year, 29.52% of active listings price-reduced, and median marketing time at 40 days. These are asking-market supply and seller-concession signals, not closed sales or independent proof of demand. Tax-return migration was net positive by 217 households, yet incoming movers' average AGI was $4,018 below outgoing movers'; underwriting should not equate inflow with stronger household purchasing capacity. Investor mortgages represented 7.01% of purchase mortgages, a defined financing slice rather than all buyer activity.

04Risk & next checks

The named hazard is inland flood; the modeled climate-loss ratio is an expected annual share of building value, not a claimed loss or a dollar forecast. Check flood zone, elevation, prior claims, drainage, policy terms and deductibles property by property. QCEW covers annual workplace employment, not resident employment or unemployment; Professional and business services is only the largest disclosed private supersector by covered employment, not the entire economy. Missing closed-sale comps, property condition, insurance quotes, financing terms and lease-level turnover prevent conclusions on exit value, insurability or net cash flow.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Broomfield County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Broomfield city76.3K
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

1 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Broomfield cityIncorporated place
    76,304

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.081% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.60%

$4,007 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+217

5,561 in · 5,344 out

Arriving vs leaving income−$4,018

$87,976 arriving · $91,994 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors7.0%

66 of 942 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings249▼ 2.2% year over year
Median days on market40▼ 1.8% year over year
Listings price-reduced29.5%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▼ 4.3% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Same metro

The other counties in Denver, CO

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
Broomfield County76,304$629k$2,0353.9%inland flooding
Denver County718,877$546k$1,8894.2%inland flooding
Arapahoe County659,844$516k$1,8214.2%hail
Jefferson County579,377$629k$1,9813.8%inland flooding
Adams County530,225$486k$1,8564.6%hail
Douglas County377,150$712k$2,3063.9%inland flooding
Elbert County27,874$686kn/an/ainland flooding
Park County17,907$527k$2,6436.0%wildfire
Clear Creek County9,262$565k$2,1464.6%inland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Parcel-specific flood exposure and insurance terms may outweigh the county-level climate measure.
  2. County median rent, taxes and values may not match the target property's unit, condition or assessment.
  3. MLS listing behavior may not match closed-sale pricing or tenant demand.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

What hazard is named in the record?

Inland flood.

Can HUD FMR be used as the market-rent estimate in this record?

No. It is specified as a two-bedroom payment standard, while market rent is separately published as median asking rent.

Which industry is the largest disclosed private supersector?

Professional and business services.