Casper, Wyoming.
Typical home $310,650 (+2.1% in a year), asking rent $1,422 (+1.8%). Casper, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$845 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,485 +2%
- $304,165$310,650 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,701 +27%
- $243,949$310,650 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.
- Casper$1,631
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Casper, WY rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Casper, WY rose 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Casper runs $697/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $774 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,119 a month against $1,422 rent: a $1,631 mortgage payment, plus $156 property tax and $333 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Casper
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,119
- Renting$1,422
- Mortgage only$1,631
Property tax · $156/mo 0.60% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Natrona County, WY
Insurance & upkeep · $333/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming
Casper is a city of 59,038 people in Natrona County. Half its households earn more than $70,218 a year and half less, against $72,156 across Natrona County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Casper was 2.7% in August 2026, and Natrona County had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Casper is a city of a size that lets most people know their way around easily, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a share of households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing plenty of people. Among the largest workplaces in Casper are the Natrona County School District, the City of Casper and Wyoming Medical Center. The commute is short, and unemployment has stayed low and held steady over the past year.
Things to do. In or beside town, Fort Caspar is a fort with local history to explore, and the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center is a museum about the overland trails. A short drive away, Hogadon Ski Area offers skiing in the colder months, and Edness K. Wilkins State Park is a protected area for time outdoors.
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- 25,565households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Natrona County had 40,157 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 56°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Casper Wwtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Casper
- Natrona County School District #1School district2,134FTE
- City of CasperGeneral accounting offices, government740
- Wyoming Medical CenterGeneral hospital727FTE
- Casper CollegeTwo-year college507
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters372
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters359
- Wyoming Behavioral InstitutePsychiatric hospital178FTE
- CasperMail and parcel delivery155
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,943 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of CasperRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Casper’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Natrona County and the Casper, WY metro.
Casper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Casper$310,650
- Wyoming$369,044
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Casper listings, and the typical home goes pending in 22 days — 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.
- Casper26.17%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Casper22
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Casper290
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Casper103
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Casper$311,308
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Casper98.60%
Zip codes with a Casper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Casper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Casper
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82604 | Casper | 27,487 | $1,506 | $320,905 |
| 82601 | Casper | 26,721 | $1,192 | $290,009 |
| 82609 | Casper | 18,714 | $1,543 | $351,424 |