Austin, Nevada.
Typical home $124,126 (+16.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$131 (+25%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,963 +17%
- $106,163$124,126 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $21,117 -15%
- $145,242$124,126 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.
- Austin$652
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Austin, NV rose 16.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Austin, Lander County, Nevada
Austin, in Lander County, had 167 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lander County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lander County work in farming, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Austin is a very small community in Lander County, Nevada, where neighbors are few and the surrounding country is open and quiet. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm; across the year the place gets little rain and melted snow. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across Lander County are on the higher side.
Work. Residents work mostly in farming, forestry and mining, in government, in professional and business services, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Lander County, some of the largest workplaces are Lander Schools, Battle Mountain General Hospital and the Bureau of Land Management. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, and the county has gained a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. Most outings from Austin mean a longer drive into wide public land. Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest is a large protected area, and the Austin Ranger District covers the part of it closest to town. Hickison Petroglyph Recreation Area is a park with rock carvings, also a longer drive away.
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What people in Lander County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lander County had 3,698 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 59°. About 64 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Austin #2 weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lander County
- Lander SchoolsSchool district113FTE
- Battle Mountain General HospitalCritical access hospital58FTE
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior35
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior24
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Austin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Lander County.
Austin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Austin$124,126
- Nevada$440,739
- 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.
- Austin8
Zip codes with a Austin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Austin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.