Edwards, CO
Edwards merits investigation only for buyers able to accept low current yield, a high entry price, and explicit flood underwriting; investors needing strong cash income or an easy exit should avoid it.
Why this market scores where it does
Written from the figures on this page and then checked against them: every number below had to appear in the source record or recompute from two that did, or the text was rewritten.
Edwards merits investigation only for buyers able to accept low current yield, a high entry price, and explicit flood underwriting; investors needing strong cash income or an easy exit should avoid it. The median home value is $1,315,337, while gross yield is 3%, leaving little rent relative to acquisition cost.
The opportunity is rent momentum: median asking rent is $3,285 and rose 7.93% year over year. That strength is not confirmed by LAUS employment, which fell 0.53%, or household flows, where net migration was -374. Strong rents therefore sit beside weaker demand signals rather than resolving them.
Buyers may have negotiating room because listings carry 6.5 months of supply and spend a median 57 days on market. The trade-off is exit risk, alongside inland-flood exposure and a 0.256% annual climate loss ratio. Property-level insurance terms and flood exposure are not published.
Frequently Asked Investor Questions
What are the current rent and yield figures?
What resale conditions are visible?
What climate exposure is identified?
Investor Quick Takeaways
Computed from the current Zillow rent and home-value medians.
Zillow ZORI rent growth trend over trailing 12 months.
Originated investment purchase share (CFPB HMDA).
Annualized loss ratio evaluated for flood & hurricane risk.
Test the market, then test the deal
Keep Edwards as the starting point or move into a more specific property and rent check.
The current market in eight signals
Fast-moving Redfin conditions sit beside the slower fundamentals so a buyer can separate today's negotiating climate from the long-run investment case.
What each component measures
Weights are published, not hidden, and the arithmetic is shown. Five components, each measured as a national percentile across all tracked metros.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job growth | 39 | 30% | 11.70 |
| Rent trend | 91 | 25% | 22.75 |
| Affordability | 3 | 15% | 0.45 |
| Supply pressure | 6 | 15% | 0.90 |
| Climate risk | 14 | 15% | 2.10 |
| Published score | 38 | ||
LAUS employment fell 0.53% year over year -> tenant-demand underwriting should remain conservative.
Median asking rent rose 7.93% to $3,285, but gross yield is 3% -> rent momentum has not translated into a strong income return at current values.
Price-to-income is 12.64 and rent consumes 37.87% of median income -> buyer affordability and tenant payment capacity are constrained.
Supply is 6.5 months and median time on market is 57 days -> buyers may gain negotiating room but should allow for a slower exit.
Inland flood is the dominant hazard and the annual climate loss ratio is 0.256% -> insurance and property-level flood exposure require explicit underwriting.
What this market costs and what it earns
Every derived ratio below recomputes from the same source record used by the article and score.
What is being built, and for whom
Permits are the 12-to-24 month early warning. The total matters less than the mix: apartments compete with a rental the day they open.
Demand, and the competition for it
Tax filings say how many households moved and what they earn; mortgage disclosures say how many local purchases went to someone who will not live there. Moves between counties inside this metro are netted out of both flow figures.
What would make this a bad buy
Generated from the same figures with the instruction to argue against the score, and published unedited. A page that only agrees with itself is an advertisement.
Three ways the case breaks
- LAUS employment fell 0.53% and net migration was -374 households, leaving rent growth without support from these demand signals.
- At a $1,315,337 median value, a 3% gross yield leaves limited income cushion before expenses.
- With 6.5 months of supply, 57 median days on market, and 14.36% price drops, resale could be slower or require concessions.
Move from the metro average to local evidence
County pages carry tax, migration, listing and hazard records. City pages appear only where direct city price, rent and Census evidence pass the publication gate.
No city in this metro has passed the current city evidence gate.
Metros that behave like Edwards
Nearest neighbours on price level, income, yield and job growth — not on geography. Every market page gets a different peer set, which is the point.
| Metro | Score | Price | Rent | Yield | Job Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edwards, CO (Target) | 38 | $1315k | $3,285 | 3.0% | ▼ 0.5% |
| Jackson, WY | 43 | $1407k | $3,475 | 3.0% | ▼ 0.3% |
| Santa Cruz, CA | 44 | $1162k | $3,609 | 3.7% | ▲ 0.7% |
| Breckenridge, CO | 23 | $985k | $3,337 | 4.1% | ▼ 1.5% |
| Heber, UT | 52 | $1155k | $3,449 | 3.6% | ▲ 0.7% |
Where every figure came from
“Checked nightly” means every source is re-pulled and re-verified each night. It does not mean every source moves nightly — the release column tells you how fresh each number can possibly be.
| Dataset Source | Method | Release Period | Pulled Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Census ACS 5-year — household income | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-26 |
| Census ACS 5-year — population | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-26 |
| BLS CES — payroll employment | direct | CES SM current | 2026-07-26 |
| BLS LAUS — resident employment | direct | LAUS current | 2026-07-26 |
| BLS QCEW — county employment and wages | direct | annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 | 2026-07-31 |
| OMB/BLS delineation — metro geography | direct | OMB July 2023 delineation | 2026-07-30 |
| Census Building Permits Survey — permitted units | direct | BPS through 2026 | 2026-07-26 |
| Census ACS 5-year — city population, households and housing | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-29 |
| Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-30 |
| Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-30 |
| FEMA National Risk Index — hazard loss ratios | modelled | NRI counties (FEMA ArcGIS) | 2026-07-26 |
| FHFA House Price Index — annual county appreciation | direct | annual county HPI 2025 | 2026-07-28 |
| HMDA / CFPB — purchases by occupancy type | direct | HMDA 2024 purchase originations | 2026-07-26 |
| HUD Fair Market Rents — Section 8 standard | direct | FY2026 FMR | 2026-07-26 |
| HUD USPS crosswalk and Small Area FMRs — ZIP rent fallback | direct | ZIP-CBSA 2025Q4 + SAFMR FY2026 | 2026-07-26 |
| IRS SOI — county migration and mover income | direct | SOI migration 2022-2023 | 2026-07-26 |
| Freddie Mac PMMS — mortgage rates | direct | week of 2026-07-23 | 2026-07-27 |
| Census ACS 5-year — effective property tax | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-27 |
| Realtor.com Economic Research — county listing inventory | direct | county inventory 2026-06 | 2026-07-28 |
| Redfin Data Center — inventory, days on market, and price cuts | direct | metro tracker through 2026-05-01 | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZHVI and ZORI — county values and rents | direct | county ZHVI/ZORI 2026-06 | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZHVI — metro home values | direct | Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZHVI — city home values | direct | zillow_zhvi_city.csv | 2026-07-29 |
| Zillow ZORI — metro market rents | direct | Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_sa_month.csv | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZORI — city market rents | direct | zillow_zori_city.csv | 2026-07-29 |
| Zillow ZORI — ZIP market rents | direct | ZORI ZIP 2026-06 | 2026-07-26 |