Alta, Wyoming.
Typical home $2,007,636 (-0.7% in a year). Jackson, WY-ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$6,661 (+172%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,676 -1%
- $2,022,313$2,007,636 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $625,525 +45%
- $1,382,111$2,007,636 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Alta$10,538
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Alta, WY fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alta, Teton County, Wyoming
Alta, in Teton County, had 429 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Teton County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Teton County work in restaurants and hotels, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alta is a very small community on the Wyoming side of the Teton Range, with few residents and a quiet, spread-out feel. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm without being hot. Homes here are worth far more than in most of the country, and household incomes across Teton County sit well above what is typical nationally.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades. Across Teton County, some of the largest workplaces are Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, St. Johns Hospital and the Teton County School District. Unemployment in the county is low, and it has stayed about where it was a year ago.
Things to do. Lake Solitude is a lake a short drive away. Grand Teton National Park, the best known place nearby, is a longer drive, as is Jenny Lake, a lake within the park that suits a day out on the water or a walk along its shore. Bridger–Teton National Forest, a large protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Teton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Teton County had 23,921 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 48°. About 113 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alta Nnw weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Teton County
- Jackson Hole Mountain ResortAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations1,158
- St. Johns HospitalGeneral hospital706FTE
- Teton County School District #1School district500FTE
- Hospitality Grand Teton Lodge CompanyHotels and motels483
- Grand Targhee ResortSki lodges and resorts with accommodations302
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior245
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores176
- Jackson Wyoming147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,019 people in all across the county; Alta has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- AvalanchesVery high
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alta’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Teton County and the Jackson, WY-ID metro.
Alta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alta$2,007,636
- Wyoming$369,044
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alta5
Zip codes with a Alta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.