Glenbrook, Nevada.
Typical home $3,108,350 (+20.0% in a year). Gardnerville Ranchos, NV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$10,148 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $517,366 +20%
- $2,590,984$3,108,350 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $508,754 +20%
- $2,599,597$3,108,350 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.
- Glenbrook$16,315
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Glenbrook, NV rose 20.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glenbrook, Douglas County, Nevada
Glenbrook, in Douglas County, had 315 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Douglas County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Douglas County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glenbrook is a very small community on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, with far fewer residents than most towns and homes that are valued well above what is typical across the county. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing and lows dipping below it, while summers are mild and July highs stay comfortable. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Douglas County, some of the largest workplaces are Caesars Entertainment, Caesars Republic Lake Tahoe and Douglas Schools. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and there were more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Lake Tahoe is a short drive away, and so are Lake Tahoe State Park and Chimney Beach, a beach on the shore. Spooner Lake, a reservoir, lies in or beside town. For skiing, Heavenly Mountain Resort and Palisades Tahoe are both a longer drive away.
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What people in Douglas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 21,634 jobs in 2025, 4.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 50°. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glenbrook weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas County
- Caesars EntertainmentCasino hotel860
- Caesars Republic Lake TahoeCasino hotel762
- Douglas SchoolsSchool district584FTE
- OS OperationsControl equipment, electric, manufacturing578
- Edgewood Tahoe ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities486
- Starbucks Carson Valley Roasting Plant and Distribution CenterCoffee roasting451
- Golden Nugget - Hard Rock TahoeCasino hotels368
- Carson Valley Medical CenterCritical access hospital347FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,297 people in all across the county; Glenbrook has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Glenbrook’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Douglas County and the Gardnerville Ranchos, NV metro.
Glenbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glenbrook$3,108,350
- Nevada$440,739
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 17 Glenbrook listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Glenbrook5.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glenbrook23
Zip codes with a Glenbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glenbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.