Carlin, Nevada.
Typical home $213,218 (+2.4% in a year). Elko, NV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$495 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,079 +2%
- $208,140$213,218 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,909 +16%
- $183,309$213,218 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.
- Carlin$1,119
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Carlin, NV rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carlin, Elko County, Nevada
Carlin is a city of 2,050 people in Elko County. Half its households earn more than $60,898 a year and half less, against $86,487 across Elko County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Elko County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Elko County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carlin is a small city in Elko County, Nevada, with winters that run cold and snowy and summers that turn hot. Household incomes here are lower than across the county as a whole, and homes cost less than in many parts of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and most residents have a fairly short drive to work.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, with others in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, or in shops. Across Elko County, some of the largest workplaces are Elko Schools, Great Basin College and Cactus Pete's. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Susie Creek runs in or beside town, and Pine Creek is a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive reaches the South Fork Humboldt River and South Fork State Recreation Area, a protected area. Winters bring plenty of snow, so the warmer months are the easiest time to get out to the water.
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- 751households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Elko County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Elko County had 22,540 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 52°. About 41 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elko Regional Airport weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Elko County
- Elko SchoolsSchool district976FTE
- National EWPDrilling water wells486
- Great Basin CollegeUniversity or college411
- Cactus Pete'sResort hotels with casinos346
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
- RAM EnterpriseConveyor belts, rubber, manufacturing324
- Northeastern Nevada Regional HospitaGeneral hospital203FTE
- Sandvik ElkoMining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services203
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,737 people in all across the county; Carlin has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Carlin’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 Elko County and the Elko, NV metro.
Carlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carlin$213,218
- 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.
Zip codes with a Carlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.