Home appreciation in Boulder, CO

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Boulder, CO grew an average of 6.6% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+1.7%

2025 over 2024. Colorado: +1.3%.

5-year, per year

+6.6%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Colorado: +7.1%.

10-year, per year

+6.8%

+92.4% in total since 2015. Colorado: +7.3%.

How does your home compare?

Boulder, CO home prices rose 92.4% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +61.3% to +107.5%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Boulder, CO compares with Colorado

Colorado averaged +7.1% a year, putting Boulder, CO behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Boulder, CO ranks 364th out of 409 metros nationwide and 6th out of 7 in Colorado.

Index, 2005 = 100

Boulder, CO and Colorado, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearBoulder, COColorado
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2101101
2005 Q3103103
2005 Q4102104
2006 Q1103104
2006 Q2104105
2006 Q3103105
2006 Q4104106
2007 Q1104107
2007 Q2105107
2007 Q3105106
2007 Q4106107
2008 Q1106107
2008 Q2106106
2008 Q3106104
2008 Q4106105
2009 Q1107107
2009 Q2106105
2009 Q3105102
2009 Q4105102
2010 Q1104101
2010 Q2104100
2010 Q3105101
2010 Q4105101
2011 Q110298
2011 Q210296
2011 Q310397
2011 Q410398
2012 Q110498
2012 Q210398
2012 Q310599
2012 Q4106100
2013 Q1107102
2013 Q2109104
2013 Q3112106
2013 Q4112107
2014 Q1115109
2014 Q2118112
2014 Q3121115
2014 Q4122116
2015 Q1124119
2015 Q2130124
2015 Q3136128
2015 Q4138130
2016 Q1141132
2016 Q2147137
2016 Q3150140
2016 Q4153142
2017 Q1156145
2017 Q2162150
2017 Q3162152
2017 Q4165154
2018 Q1168159
2018 Q2173163
2018 Q3175165
2018 Q4176166
2019 Q1177168
2019 Q2179170
2019 Q3180172
2019 Q4181174
2020 Q1182175
2020 Q2182177
2020 Q3185180
2020 Q4188184
2021 Q1190189
2021 Q2204202
2021 Q3217214
2021 Q4220221
2022 Q1231230
2022 Q2253247
2022 Q3248244
2022 Q4243238
2023 Q1237239
2023 Q2247245
2023 Q3246245
2023 Q4246242
2024 Q1249246
2024 Q2248250
2024 Q3252250
2024 Q4250250
2025 Q1254251
2025 Q2256253
2025 Q3251252
2025 Q4255254
2026 Q1254254
2026 Q2250253

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Five-year and ten-year growth rates were similar, at +6.8% a year over ten years and +92.4% in total, suggesting a similar pattern over both periods.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 3.6% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2022 at +17.3%, and the weakest was 2011 at -1.8%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +1.7%, against +1.3% for the state.

ZIP codes in Boulder, CO

Over the ten years to 2025, the 12 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +61.3% in 80304 to +107.5% in 80466, while the metro as a whole rose 92.4%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 80466+107.5%
  2. 80026+99.1%
  3. 80540+96.6%
  4. 80501+95.1%
  5. 80504+93.9%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 80304+61.3%
  2. 80305+69.9%
  3. 80303+71.2%
  4. 80301+79.5%
  5. 80302+80.0%
ZIP codes in Boulder, CO ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
80466+5.8%+7.9%+7.6%+107.5%
80026+2.3%+7.0%+7.1%+99.1%
80540+3.9%+6.6%+7.0%+96.6%
805010.0%+6.0%+6.9%+95.1%
80504-1.7%+6.6%+6.8%+93.9%
80503+0.3%+6.7%+6.6%+89.8%
80027-0.3%+6.3%+6.2%+82.8%
80302-4.3%+6.0%+6.1%+80.0%
80301-1.2%+6.6%+6.0%+79.5%
80303-1.8%+5.9%+5.5%+71.2%
80305-2.2%+5.3%+5.4%+69.9%
80304+1.2%+4.7%+4.9%+61.3%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Boulder, CO and Colorado, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006101.9+1.9%103.0
2007103.4+1.4%104.3
2008104.8+1.4%103.4
2009104.2-0.5%101.8
2010102.7-1.4%98.4
2011101.0-1.8%95.3
2012102.9+1.9%96.7
2013108.4+5.4%102.4
2014117.3+8.2%110.6
2015130.1+11.0%122.3
2016145.8+12.0%135.0
2017158.8+8.9%147.2
2018170.3+7.3%159.5
2019176.6+3.7%167.4
2020181.6+2.8%175.5
2021204.7+12.7%202.3
2022240.1+17.3%234.5
2023240.6+0.2%237.5
2024246.1+2.3%243.9
2025250.4+1.7%247.2

The 7 measured metros in Colorado

Measured metros in Colorado ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Grand Junction, CO+4.6%+9.3%+8.0%
2Pueblo, CO+0.4%+7.5%+8.0%
3Fort Collins-Loveland, CO+1.6%+7.3%+7.2%
4Colorado Springs, CO+1.7%+7.2%+7.8%
5Greeley, CO+1.8%+6.8%+7.5%
6Boulder, CO+1.7%+6.6%+6.8%
7Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO+0.8%+6.6%+7.1%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Colorado row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2