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Denver 80212 is in Denver County, CO, part of the Denver Metro. The typical home value in Denver 80212 is $708,733 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 1.1% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 20 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 4.1 months of supply, sellers hold a slight edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 80212 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 80212 sits 31% above the county middle. Typical rent is $2,487 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index, September 2026). Lotvox holds county assessor records for 8,136 properties in 80212.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 80212 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Sep 30, 2026, 80212 is a seller's market, narrowly. Homes went under contract in a median 20 days with 4.1 months of supply.
What do homes in 80212 sell for?
The typical home value in 80212 is $708,733 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 1.1% in a year. County records put the median at about $407 per square foot (computed Jul 26, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 80212?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 80212 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 80212 compare to Denver County?
80212's typical value of $708,733 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 80212 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
23.7×
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 23.9% correction for affordability
DOM: 34d (falling) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)75
Valuation Gap (25%)10
Supply & Demand (20%)0
Buy vs Rent (15%)75
Cancellation Rate (10%)0
Days on Market (5%)40
Seller-favored market in 80212. Expect to pay at or near list price. Payment burden: 37.4% of median income. A 6% price correction needed to reach 30% affordability threshold. Median days on market: 34. Renting is approximately 98% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 23.8).
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 1.1% 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
+8.7%
Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.
Avg assessor$770,150
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%
Jefferson+68.6%
Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap
Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.
Berkeley LakeClear CreekInspiration PointLake RhodaSloan's Lake
Weekend range12
Barr Lake State Park · state park18 mi
Castlewood Canyon State Park · state park35 mi
Chatfield State Park · state park19 mi
Cherry Creek State Park · state park14 mi
Eldorado Canyon State Park · state park17 mi
Golden Gate Canyon · state park22 mi
James Peak Wilderness · wilderness area34 mi
Mount Evans Wilderness · wilderness area33 mi
Roxborough State Park · state park23 mi
Staunton State Park · state park27 mi
Straight-line distance from the ZIP centroid (USGS PAD-US).
5,404 ft above sea level elevation · USGS 3DEP7 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
2 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
$387k
$431
20
12.4%
ZIP
$500k–$750k
$615k
$596
57
35.4%
ZIP
$750k–$1M
$850k
$623
27
16.8%
ZIP
$1M–$1.5M
$1.25M
$544
38
23.6%
ZIP
$1.5M–$2M
$1.70M
$606
10
6.2%
ZIP
$2M+
$2.64M
$730
31
—
COUNTY · Denver, CO
All sales (the headline median)
$755k
$564
161
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 80212.
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.
This ZIP code crosses county lines. Property data shows Denver (84.8%) and Jefferson (15.2%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.
Denver (84.8%)
Jefferson (15.2%)
ZIP 80212→2 counties
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
39.4%
severe
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.32% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-22
Price-to-rent
23.7x
favors renting
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation20
+55.7%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
4.1 mo
balanced
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 · Coverage derived from property records · Counties with <2% coverage excluded as likely data errors
