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Boulder vs Lakewood

Boulder and Lakewood are both Colorado towns. There are 675 homes for sale in Boulder and 430 in Lakewood as this page loaded. Boulder is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $990,000 against $519,975 in Lakewood, about 90% higher. Homes are moving faster in Lakewood — a median of 53 days on market against 73 in Boulder. On months of supply both are a balanced market right now.

Side by side

MeasureBoulderLakewood
Homes for sale675430
New in last 30 days139130
Median asking price$990,000$519,975
Median price per sq ft$523$296
Median size (sq ft)1,9541,691
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market7353
Months of supply5.43.1
Sold, last 12 months1,5061,658
Median sold price$967,000$569,500
Median days to sell6455
Sold vs asking price98.0%100.0%

The darker figure in each row is the lower price, the shorter wait or the larger number — which of those is the good news depends entirely on whether you are buying or selling.

What each market is doing

Boulder is a balanced marketBetween three and six months of supply is the range where neither side has the upper hand - well-priced homes sell and buyers still have room to negotiate.
Lakewood is a balanced marketBetween three and six months of supply is the range where neither side has the upper hand - well-priced homes sell and buyers still have room to negotiate.

Boulder

675
Homes for sale
$990,000
Median asking price
$523
Median per sq ft
73
Median days on market

Lakewood

430
Homes for sale
$519,975
Median asking price
$296
Median per sq ft
53
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Boulder or Lakewood more expensive?

Boulder is more expensive. The median asking price is $990,000 in Boulder against $519,975 in Lakewood. By price per square foot, Boulder runs $523 and Lakewood $296.

Which moves faster, Boulder or Lakewood?

Homes for sale in Lakewood have been on the market a median of 53 days, against 73 days in Boulder. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Boulder took a median of 64 days and Lakewood 55.

Is Boulder or Lakewood the better market for a buyer?

Boulder is a balanced market and Lakewood is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 5.4 months in Boulder and 3.1 in Lakewood. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Boulder is the easier of the two to buy in today. That is the arithmetic, not advice — the right town is the one you want to live in.

How many homes are for sale in Boulder and Lakewood?

There are 675 homes for sale in Boulder and 430 in Lakewood as this page loaded, 139 and 130 of them new in the last 30 days.

How current are these figures?

They are not published on a schedule and they are not a monthly snapshot. Both towns are read from the live MLS feed at the same instant, when you open this page, so the two sides are always measured against each other rather than against different weeks.

Both sides of this comparison are recalculated from the live MLS feed at the moment the page loads - neither is a monthly snapshot, and the two are read at the same instant so they are always comparable. Figures cover residential homes for sale; rentals, land and commercial are excluded, as are fractional co-ownership shares, which are priced per share and would distort the medians. Sold figures cover the last twelve complete calendar months. Market data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed - talk to us before making a decision on it.

The listings these figures are drawn from were last changed at the MLS on October 27, 2026 at 9:17 AM Mountain time. The figures themselves are worked out again from scratch every time this page is opened.

Common questions, answered with live Colorado numbers