Basin, Wyoming.
Typical home $263,150 (+0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$809 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $613 +0%
- $262,537$263,150 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,090 +36%
- $194,060$263,150 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.
- Basin$1,381
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Basin, WY rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Basin, Big Horn County, Wyoming
Basin is a town of 1,288 people in Big Horn County. Half its households earn more than $65,515 a year and half less, against $62,101 across Big Horn County. Unemployment in Big Horn County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Big Horn County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Basin is a small town in Big Horn County, Wyoming, where households earn somewhat more than the county's typical household. Winters here are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing days common, and summers turn properly hot in July. Snow falls through the cold months, but the year as a whole is dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, the building trades and shops also employing local people. Across Big Horn County, the largest workplaces include North BIG Horn Hospital, the Big Horn County School District and Western Sugar Cooperative. Getting to work is quick for most people, and hardly anyone works from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Greybull River and the Nowood River offer water to walk beside and fish, and the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting is a short drive away too. Shell Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away and worth the trip when the weather is fine.
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- 507households
- 15 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Big Horn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Big Horn County had 4,295 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 60°. About 20 inches of snow and 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Basin weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Big Horn County
- North Big Horn HospitalCritical access hospital185FTE
- Big Horn County School District #1School district176FTE
- Big Horn County School District #2School district119FTE
- Lovell Gypsum119
- Big Horn County School District #3School district99FTE
- Western Sugar CooperativeBeet pulp, dried, manufacturing91
- Big Horn County School District #4School district71FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 387 people in all across the county; Basin has one 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Basin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Big Horn County.
Basin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Basin$263,150
- 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.
- Basin12
Zip codes with a Basin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Basin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.