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Denver 80205 is in Denver County, CO, part of the Denver Metro. The typical home value in Denver 80205 is $554,302 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 1.5% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 34 days, and 37% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Sep 30, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 7.1 months of supply, sellers hold a slight edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 80205 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Denver County's 25 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $542,874, so 80205 sits 2% above the county middle. Typical rent is $2,010 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index, September 2026). Lotvox holds county assessor records for 10,952 properties in 80205.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 80205 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Sep 30, 2026, 80205 is a seller's market, narrowly. Homes went under contract in a median 34 days with 7.1 months of supply.
What do homes in 80205 sell for?
The typical home value in 80205 is $554,302 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 1.5% in a year. County records put the median at about $389 per square foot (computed Jul 26, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 80205?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 80205 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 80205 compare to Denver County?
80205's typical value of $554,302 compares with a middle value of $542,874 across Denver County's 25 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for September 2026.
Where does this 80205 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Ownership cost: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), 20% down, 30-year loan at the current mortgage rate, plus 1.2% of the price a year.
Rent to price — the investor's question first
23×
price to annual rent
Lower is friendlier to a buy-to-let case. This is a ratio of published medians, not a yield on any particular property.
Price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Annual rent: 12 months of Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI).
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Seller's Market
Needs 18.9% correction for affordability
DOM: 67d (rising) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)50
Valuation Gap (25%)10
Supply & Demand (20%)40
Buy vs Rent (15%)75
Cancellation Rate (10%)0
Days on Market (5%)75
Seller-favored market in 80205. Expect to pay at or near list price. Payment burden: 35.2% of median income. Median days on market: 67. Renting is approximately 105% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 24.6).
Buyer Caution
Seller's market. Be prepared to pay near list price.
Competitive market similar to 2021-2022 — limited inventory driving prices above fundamentals.
COOLINGSELLER SLIGHT
Market is cooling with expanding inventory. Sellers hold a slight edge. Prices down 1.5% YoY.
Turnover Index · Coming soonLotvox Turnover Index did not beat random in backtest, so no score is published.
Median price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Median rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Days on market and active listings: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Valuation
3 lenses, different anchors
vs assessor
+18.2%
Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.
Avg assessor$655,000
county CAMA · properties_v
vs income
—
Fair-value model not available for this market.
fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage
vs county comps
+55.7%
County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.
Denver+55.7%
Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap
Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.
36th & Lafayette Community GardenBenedict Fountain ParkBenedict Park Place Dog ParkBruce Randolph Community GardenCity of Nairobi ParkCity Park+16 more
Trails16
24th Street Path35th/36th Street Pedestrian Bridge39th Avenue GreenwayArapahoe StreetBlake StreetCity Park Lake Loop+10 more
Recreation & aquatics12
Altitude Peak FitnessBrooklyn BouldersBrother Jeff's Cultural CenterFight Gravity FitnessGerard’s Pool HallGlenarm Recreation Center+6 more
Venues & culture61
African PenguinAmber FriesBear MountainBirdsBird WorldBlack American West Museum+55 more
Dining & cafés39
715 ClubBirdcallCHUBurgerCoffee SarapCohesion BrewingCole Craft Coffee+33 more
Land & water8
Duck LakeDucksFerril LakeHarbor SealLily PondNorthern Shores/Polar Bear+2 more
Straight-line distance from the ZIP centroid (USGS PAD-US).
5,226 ft above sea level elevation · USGS 3DEP11 protected / open-space parcels · USGS PAD-USDenver: incorporated/founded 1858-11-22; named after James W. Denver · Wikidata
Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Denver.
Aggregate median +2.5% YoY in Denver, CO (county), but the under-$500k tier is +1.3% — both the aggregate and the entry tier are rising. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 46.3% to 44.5% (-1.9pp) and the $1M+ share from 12.1% to 13.4% (+1.3pp).
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
5 tiers had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
$114k
$234
97
—
COUNTY · Denver, CO
$250k–$500k
$400k
$471
21
34.4%
ZIP
$500k–$750k
$599k
$657
31
50.8%
ZIP
$750k–$1M
$840k
$501
287
—
COUNTY · Denver, CO
$1M–$1.5M
$1.20M
$517
185
—
COUNTY · Denver, CO
$1.5M–$2M
$1.65M
$531
44
—
COUNTY · Denver, CO
$2M+
$2.64M
$730
31
—
COUNTY · Denver, CO
All sales (the headline median)
$555k
$558
61
100%
ZIP
ZIP-level history was too thin to draw the tiers; served at county level (Denver, CO), by quarter.
Share of sales by tier (quarterly)
If the upper tiers widen over time, the headline median rises on composition alone.
Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
$1.5M–$2M
$2M+
Median within each tier, against the headline median (quarterly)
The blue line is the single number NAR-style reporting quotes. The gold lines are what each tier actually did. Log scale — the tiers span an order of magnitude, and on a log axis equal slopes mean equal percentage moves, which is the comparison being made.
Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
$1.5M–$2M
$2M+
All sales (headline)
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the West census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 80205.
United States
West
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
ZIP 80205→Denver County, COPop: 728,309
12-Month Direction
-16Moderate Deterioration
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
39· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
37%
severe
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.32% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-22
Price-to-rent
23x
favors renting
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation20
+55.7%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
7.1 mo
buyer's market
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-09-30
Insurance Risk
34/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
4.7%
CO 3.8%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0855d ago
Poverty Rate
10.5%
CO 9.4%US 12.6%
Near national averages
Median Household Income
$91,681
CO $94,510US $82,006
Higher than most U.S. counties
Cost of Living (RPP)
112.5
CO 111.8US 100.3
Higher than many comparable counties
Home Value (ZHVI)$547,039
County data: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA
