Caliente, Nevada.
Typical home $193,537 (-2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$452 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,555 -3%
- $199,092$193,537 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $19,839 -9%
- $213,376$193,537 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.
- Caliente$1,016
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Caliente, NV fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Caliente, Lincoln County, Nevada
Caliente is a city of 990 people in Lincoln County. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Caliente is a small city in Lincoln County, Nevada, home to only a few people compared with most American towns. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest; snow is light and the year is dry overall. Typical homes cost less than in much of the country, and the share of people living below the poverty line is low.
Work. Across Lincoln County, the largest workplaces include Lincoln Schools, Grover C Dils Medical Center, a critical access hospital, and Lake Valley Operations Nevada, a fresh-produce wholesaler. Unemployment in the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the county had slightly more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Kershaw–Ryan State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Cathedral Gorge State Park is another protected area a longer drive away, and Thompson's Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive away. Each makes a fair day's outing from town.
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- 5%below the poverty line
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 57°. About 9 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Caliente weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln SchoolsSchool district104FTE
- Grover C Dils Medical CenterCritical access hospital65FTE
- Lake Valley Operations NevadaProduce, fresh, merchant wholesalers23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 23 people in all across the county; Caliente has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Caliente’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 Lincoln County.
Caliente home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Caliente$193,537
- 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.
- Caliente10
Zip codes with a Caliente address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Caliente — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.