Buffalo, Wyoming.
Typical home $411,787 (+1.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,198 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,776 +2%
- $405,011$411,787 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,876 +26%
- $326,911$411,787 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.
- Buffalo$2,161
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Buffalo, WY rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming
Buffalo is a city of 4,415 people in Johnson County. Half its households earn more than $62,629 a year and half less, against $64,871 across Johnson County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buffalo is a small city in Johnson County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values sit well above what the incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings fairly little rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops and in other services, and a good number work from home. Among the largest workplaces in Buffalo are Johnson County School District, Johnson County Healthcare and the Bureau of Land Management. Unemployment in the county is low and has risen only slightly over the past year, and the county has a few fewer jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. The Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum is in or beside town, and Rock Creek and Lake De Smet, a river and a lake, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Fort Phil Kearny, a historic fort, and the protected backcountry of Cloud Peak Wilderness are each a longer drive away.
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- 2,272households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 3,363 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 53°. About 43 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Buffalo weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buffalo
- Johnson County School District #1School district256FTE
- Johnson County HealthcareCritical access hospital162FTE
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior52
- DJ'SCommissaries, primarily groceries44
- WyoDak Energy ServicesPipeline, gas and oil, construction44
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 88 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Hailrelatively high in parts of BuffaloRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buffalo’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 Johnson County.
Buffalo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buffalo$411,787
- Wyoming$369,044
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Buffalo listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Buffalo14.61%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buffalo83
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Buffalo12
Zip codes with a Buffalo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buffalo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.