Farson, Wyoming.
Typical home $424,458 (+5.1% in a year). Rock Springs, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,128 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,709 +5%
- $403,749$424,458 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,601 +23%
- $345,857$424,458 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.
- Farson$2,228
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Farson, WY rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Farson, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Farson, in Sweetwater County, had 272 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sweetwater County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sweetwater County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Farson is a very small community in Sweetwater County, with far fewer people than most towns and a quiet, spread-out feel. Typical home values here sit well above what the county's incomes might suggest. Winters are long and cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm; the air is dry enough that the year's rain and melted snow add up to very little.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Sweetwater County, some of the largest workplaces are the Sweetwater County School District, the county's hospital and Western Wyoming Community College. Unemployment across the county is low and has barely changed over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. The Big Sandy River, a river a longer drive away, is one place to spend time outdoors. Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. Both suit people who like open country and are happy to travel some distance for it.
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What people in Sweetwater County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sweetwater County had 20,348 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 45°. About 28 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farson 2NNE weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sweetwater County
- Sweetwater County School District #1School district760FTE
- Mem. Hospt. of Sweetwater CountyGeneral hospital494FTE
- Sweetwater County School District #2School district465FTE
- Western Wyoming Community CollegeUniversity or college464
- JR Simplot CoFertilizer manufacturing328
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- PacifiCorpElectric services235
- Church and Dwight - Green River PlantManufacturing and packaging of baking soda,and manufacturing and packaging of other consumer goods.154
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,921 people in all across the county; Farson has none of its own. 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 weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Farson’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 Sweetwater County and the Rock Springs, WY metro.
Farson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Farson$424,458
- 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.
Zip codes with a Farson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Farson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.