Cora, Wyoming.
Typical home $582,263 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,742 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,505 +3%
- $567,758$582,263 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $132,267 +29%
- $449,996$582,263 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.
- Cora$3,056
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Cora, WY rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cora, Sublette County, Wyoming
Cora, in Sublette County, had 114 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sublette County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sublette County work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cora is a small community in Sublette County, in the mountains of western Wyoming. It is one of the smaller places in the county, where most people know one another. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with cold lows in January and warm highs in July.
Work. Residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across Sublette County is lower than it was a year earlier. Jobs in the county dipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Fort Bonneville, a historic fur-trade fort, is a short drive away. The Museum of the Mountain Man, which covers the fur trappers of the region, is also a short drive away. Fremont Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away as well.
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What people in Sublette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sublette County had 3,877 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 39°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cora weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sublette County
- Sublette County School District #1School district186FTE
- Sublette County School District #9School district93FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture53
- Taylor ConstructionPipeline construction51
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 51 people in all across the county; Cora has none of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cora’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 Sublette County.
Cora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cora$582,263
- 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.
- Cora6
Zip codes with a Cora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.