Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO
Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 19740 · 39.43, -104.90
7 findings fired for Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO this run, against a typical home value of $555,487 in September 2026 and covered employment of 1,578,155 in 2026 Q1.
- 95th pct · 17th of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500
Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.
An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.
- 91st pct · 34th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707
Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 80th pct · 74th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504
Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.
- 91st pct · 33rd of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
- 6th pct · 355th of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Occupation mix #
The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35-3023 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | 42,810 | $38,240 | 1.07 |
| 41-2031 | Retail Salespersons | 40,340 | $41,980 | 1.00 |
| 53-7065 | Stockers and Order Fillers | 32,610 | $44,510 | 1.11 |
| 29-1141 | Registered Nurses | 30,380 | $100,920 | 0.87 |
| 13-1199 | Business Operations Specialists, All Other | 28,670 | $101,660 | 2.55 |
| 15-1252 | Software Developers | 27,010 | $149,400 | 1.55 |
| 31-1120 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 26,130 | $40,800 | 0.59 |
| 41-3091 | Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 24,480 | $93,970 | 1.88 |
| 41-2011 | Cashiers | 23,860 | $39,190 | 0.75 |
| 43-4051 | Customer Service Representatives | 23,560 | $52,050 | 0.88 |
| 11-1021 | General and Operations Managers | 22,940 | $171,600 | 0.63 |
| 13-2011 | Accountants and Auditors | 22,720 | $107,620 | 1.51 |
| 35-3031 | Waiters and Waitresses | 20,750 | $51,870 | 0.88 |
| 13-1082 | Project Management Specialists | 20,710 | $120,640 | 1.88 |
| 37-2011 | Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 19,460 | $42,130 | 0.85 |
| 53-7062 | Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 19,340 | $47,700 | 0.63 |
| 41-4012 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products | 17,660 | $93,560 | 1.38 |
| 13-1161 | Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | 17,000 | $103,200 | 1.83 |
| 43-9061 | Office Clerks, General | 16,320 | $57,860 | 0.64 |
| 35-2014 | Cooks, Restaurant | 15,410 | $43,550 | 1.06 |
| 43-6014 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 15,350 | $52,540 | 0.87 |
| 43-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 14,710 | $82,850 | 0.99 |
| 53-3032 | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 14,320 | $66,130 | 0.67 |
| 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 14,100 | $59,520 | 0.99 |
| 35-1012 | First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 13,570 | $55,410 | 1.07 |
| 41-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers | 12,580 | $62,640 | 1.08 |
| 13-1071 | Human Resources Specialists | 12,520 | $90,400 | 1.33 |
| 25-2021 | Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | 12,030 | $74,950 | 0.84 |
| 23-1011 | Lawyers | 11,860 | $203,690 | 1.52 |
| 47-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers | 11,780 | $90,620 | 1.40 |
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13-0000 | Business and Financial Operations Occupations | 169,260 | $103,680 | 1.55 |
| 43-0000 | Office and Administrative Support Occupations | 168,520 | $58,040 | 0.92 |
| 41-0000 | Sales and Related Occupations | 165,560 | $69,470 | 1.19 |
| 35-0000 | Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations | 140,720 | $44,630 | 0.99 |
| 53-0000 | Transportation and Material Moving Occupations | 132,620 | $63,380 | 0.94 |
| 11-0000 | Management Occupations | 94,010 | $174,000 | 0.82 |
| 15-0000 | Computer and Mathematical Occupations | 86,530 | $129,650 | 1.59 |
| 29-0000 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations | 83,870 | $109,500 | 0.82 |
| 25-0000 | Educational Instruction and Library Occupations | 79,390 | $79,790 | 0.84 |
| 47-0000 | Construction and Extraction Occupations | 71,570 | $68,640 | 1.08 |
| 49-0000 | Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations | 58,860 | $70,420 | 0.93 |
| 31-0000 | Healthcare Support Occupations | 56,210 | $46,650 | 0.69 |
| 37-0000 | Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations | 45,500 | $45,490 | 0.97 |
| 39-0000 | Personal Care and Service Occupations | 44,020 | $47,150 | 1.31 |
| 17-0000 | Architecture and Engineering Occupations | 43,820 | $114,140 | 1.62 |
| 51-0000 | Production Occupations | 41,720 | $57,900 | 0.47 |
| 33-0000 | Protective Service Occupations | 34,860 | $67,740 | 0.89 |
| 21-0000 | Community and Social Service Occupations | 29,860 | $68,910 | 1.08 |
| 27-0000 | Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations | 24,480 | $95,780 | 1.16 |
| 23-0000 | Legal Occupations | 18,270 | $164,010 | 1.35 |
| 19-0000 | Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations | 17,880 | $99,430 | 1.17 |
| 45-0000 | Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations | 1,820 | $44,840 | 0.41 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.
Housing #
The typical home in the Denver, CO metro was worth $555,487 in September 2026.
25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,900 in September 2026.
Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME, not by a shared code: Zillow titles metros short ("Austin, TX") where the Census titles them long. Both series are Zillow's own smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.
Employment, rolled up from member counties #
About 1,578,155 covered jobs across the 10 member counties BLS published.
- jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 10 of 10 member counties BLS publishes.
- 1,578,155 = 242,964 + 339,426 + 41,346 + 3,537 + 551,034 + 147,131 + 5,012 + 4,694 + 240,128 + 2,883
| County | FIPS |
|---|---|
| Adams County, CO | 08001 |
| Arapahoe County, CO | 08005 |
| Broomfield County, CO | 08014 |
| Clear Creek County, CO | 08019 |
| Denver County, CO | 08031 |
| Douglas County, CO | 08035 |
| Elbert County, CO | 08039 |
| Gilpin County, CO | 08047 |
| Jefferson County, CO | 08059 |
| Park County, CO | 08093 |
There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 17.95 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 73.84 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 7.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 7,848.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 101.91 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.40 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.20 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -105,572.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 652,115.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO: 7 findings, 2 at a watch level and 5 noted
watchDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO's typical home value is -1.8% against a year earlier, a watch level here: typical home value below a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- test: home.yoyPct = -1.7569940678434925 < 0
arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level
watchDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO's price-to-rent ratio of 24.4 ranks 33rd of 379 US metro areas, a watch level here: price-to-rent in the top tenth of US metro areas (position among the metro areas that published both ZHVI and ZORI this month; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- test: priceToRent percentile = 91.53439153439153 >= 90
- typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
position among the metro areas that published both ZHVI and ZORI this month; not an official level
noteDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO's typical home value of -1.8% ranks 355th of 379 US metro areas, against a median of +2.0%.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 6 on the 0-to-100 scale across 379 US metro areas that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO's typical home value of $555,487 ranks 34th of 379 US metro areas, against a median of $305,707.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 91 on the 0-to-100 scale across 379 US metro areas that published home.latest
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
The full Denver, CO brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.