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Denver vs Wheat Ridge

Denver and Wheat Ridge are both Colorado towns. There are 3,827 homes for sale in Denver and 100 in Wheat Ridge as this page loaded. Wheat Ridge is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $549,000 against $505,000 in Denver, about 9% higher. Homes are moving faster in Wheat Ridge — a median of 48 days on market against 67 in Denver. Denver is a balanced market right now and Wheat Ridge is a seller's market.

Side by side

MeasureDenverWheat Ridge
Homes for sale3,827100
New in last 30 days84524
Median asking price$505,000$549,000
Median price per sq ft$353$335
Median size (sq ft)1,4681,508
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market6748
Months of supply4.72.9
Sold, last 12 months9,770418
Median sold price$580,000$640,000
Median days to sell5849
Sold vs asking price99.0%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

Denver 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.
Wheat Ridge is a seller's marketUnder three months of supply means the homes for sale would run out in under three months at the current pace of sales. Sellers tend to hold their price and good homes go quickly.

Denver

3,827
Homes for sale
$505,000
Median asking price
$353
Median per sq ft
67
Median days on market

Wheat Ridge

100
Homes for sale
$549,000
Median asking price
$335
Median per sq ft
48
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Denver or Wheat Ridge more expensive?

Wheat Ridge is more expensive. The median asking price is $549,000 in Wheat Ridge against $505,000 in Denver. By price per square foot, Denver runs $353 and Wheat Ridge $335.

Which moves faster, Denver or Wheat Ridge?

Homes for sale in Wheat Ridge have been on the market a median of 48 days, against 67 days in Denver. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Denver took a median of 58 days and Wheat Ridge 49.

Is Denver or Wheat Ridge the better market for a buyer?

Denver is a balanced market and Wheat Ridge is a seller's market, measured on months of supply — 4.7 months in Denver and 2.9 in Wheat Ridge. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Denver 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 Denver and Wheat Ridge?

There are 3,827 homes for sale in Denver and 100 in Wheat Ridge as this page loaded, 845 and 24 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 12:45 PM Mountain time. The figures themselves are worked out again from scratch every time this page is opened.

Common questions, answered with live Colorado numbers