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Idledale 80453 is in Jefferson County, CO, part of the Denver Metro. The typical home value in Idledale 80453 is $562,865 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 2.3% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 8 days, and 0% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Aug 31, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data sellers hold a slight edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 80453 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Jefferson County's 25 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $585,520, so 80453 sits 4% below the county middle. Lotvox holds county assessor records for 202 properties in 80453.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 80453 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Aug 31, 2026, 80453 is a seller's market, narrowly. Homes went under contract in a median 8 days.
What do homes in 80453 sell for?
The typical home value in 80453 is $562,865 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 2.3% in a year. County records put the median at about $277 per square foot (computed Jul 26, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 80453?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 80453 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 80453 compare to Jefferson County?
80453's typical value of $562,865 compares with a middle value of $585,520 across Jefferson County's 25 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for September 2026.
Where does this 80453 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: the Census ACS county rent estimate. 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
25.2×
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 the Census ACS county rent estimate.
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
Balanced Market
DOM: 145d (stable) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Valuation Gap (25%)60
Supply & Demand (20%)0
Days on Market (5%)100
Balanced market in 80453. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Median days on market: 145.
Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.
STABLESELLER SLIGHT
Market is holding steady with balanced conditions. Sellers hold a slight edge. Prices down 2.3% YoY.
Turnover Index · Coming soonLotvox Turnover Index needs 30 recorded sales before a grade is published.
Median price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Median rent: Census ACS county rent estimate. Days on market and active listings: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Valuation
3 lenses, different anchors
vs assessor
-14.3%
Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.
Avg assessor$482,238
county CAMA · properties_v
vs income
—
Fair-value model not available for this market.
fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage
vs county comps
+68.6%
County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.
Jefferson+68.6%
Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap
Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.
James Peak Protection Area (National) · national conservation area30 mi
Straight-line distance from the ZIP centroid (USGS PAD-US).
6,425 ft above sea level elevation · USGS 3DEP
Place data: USGS 3D Elevation Program · USGS Protected Areas Database (PAD-US) · Wikidata — licensed ODbL (OpenStreetMap), CC0 (Wikidata) and US public domain (USGS, NPS, Census). Every place shown comes from the named sources; nothing is editorialized.
Historical trends
Historical data unavailable for this ZIP.
Value & rent trends with the metro pulse — toggle series, switch Raw/Normalized, pick a 1/2/5-year window.
New-construction pipeline for the ZIP's state, monthly, against the long-run average.
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 Jefferson.
Aggregate median +2.9% YoY in Jefferson, CO (county), but the under-$500k tier is -1.0% — the rise is mix shift, not appreciation. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 29.6% to 26.9% (-2.6pp) and the $1M+ share from 12.8% to 14.6% (+1.8pp).
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
7 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
1.0%
COUNTY · Denver, CO
$250k–$500k
$405k
$345
764
8.0%
COUNTY · Denver, CO
$500k–$750k
$585k
$432
529
5.5%
COUNTY · Denver, CO
$750k–$1M
$838k
$394
1,709
17.8%
COUNTY · Jefferson, CO
$1M–$1.5M
$1.20M
$517
185
1.9%
COUNTY · Denver, CO
$1.5M–$2M
$1.67M
$523
262
2.7%
COUNTY · Jefferson, CO
$2M+
$2.64M
$730
31
0.3%
COUNTY · Denver, CO
All sales (the headline median)
$625k
$380
9,605
100%
COUNTY · Jefferson, CO
ZIP-level history was too thin to draw the tiers; served at county level (Jefferson, 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 80453.
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 80453→Jefferson County, COPop: 578,437
12-Month Direction
-8Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
35· 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.
Price-to-rent
25.2x
favors renting
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation13
+68.6%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Insurance Risk
33/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
4.4%
CO 3.8%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0855d ago
Poverty Rate
7.4%
CO 9.4%US 12.6%
Lower than most U.S. counties
Median Household Income
$107,800
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)$630,306
County data: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA
