States · Nevada · Eureka County

Eureka, Nevada.

Typical home $213,892 (+11.4% in a year). Elko, NV metro.

What it costs per month · Eureka $1,123/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$539 (+92%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $21,890 +11%
$192,003$213,892 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $29,041 +16%
$184,851$213,892 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Eureka $1,123 Nevada $2,313 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Eureka$1,123
  • Nevada$2,313
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.

Typical home values in Eureka, NV rose 11.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Eureka, Eureka County, Nevada

Eureka, in Eureka County, had 414 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Eureka County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before.

People 414 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Eureka for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.5% Eureka County, August 2026; 5.0% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Eureka for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eureka is a very small community in central Nevada, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another by name. Homes here sell for far less than in much of the country, and the county's household incomes sit near the middle of what is typical nationally.

Work. Work in Eureka County leans on mining and the services that support it. Among the largest workplaces across the county are Eureka Schools, the Goldrush Underground Mine run by Barminco USA for Nevada Gold Mines, and the assaying firm Msalabs USA. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.

Things to do. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in December and a good deal of snow through the season. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and the year as a whole is dry. No nearby places are listed for Eureka here, so plan outings with the dry, open country and the changing seasons in mind.

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Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 37° and 17°; warmest in July, 86° and 53° 20° 40° 60° 80° J F M A M J J 86° 53° A S O N D 37° 17°
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 37° and 17°; warmest in July, 86° and 53° 20° 40° 60° 80° J F M A M J J 86° 53° A S O N D 37° 17°

Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 53°. About 47 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eureka weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Eureka County

  1. Eureka SchoolsSchool district62FTE
  2. Barminco USA - Goldrush Underground Mine (Nevada Gold Mines)Gold ore mining and/or beneficiating plants44
  3. Msalabs USAAssaying services36
  4. Southwest EnergyOverburden removal for metal mining on a contract basis27

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 107 people in all across the county; Eureka has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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

  1. WildfireVery high
  2. Winter weatherVery high
  3. DroughtRelatively high
  4. Inland floodingRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eureka’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 Eureka County and the Elko, NV metro.

Eureka home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Eureka $213,892 Nevada $440,739 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Eureka$213,892
  • 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.

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Zip codes with a Eureka address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eureka — 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.