Guernsey, Wyoming.
Typical home $186,374 (+1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$522 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,364 +2%
- $183,011$186,374 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,253 +30%
- $143,122$186,374 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.
- Guernsey$978
- 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 Guernsey, WY rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Guernsey, Platte County, Wyoming
Guernsey is a town of 1,130 people in Platte County. Unemployment in Platte County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Platte County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Guernsey is a small town in Platte County, Wyoming, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers turn properly hot by July. The year brings little rain and melted snow, so the air is dry and the landscape open. A four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places, and a typical home costs less than in much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Platte County, the largest workplaces include the Platte County School District and Platte County Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Guernsey State Park is a protected area a short drive away, the easiest outing from town. A longer drive leads to Fort Laramie National Historic Site, a protected area with a long frontier history. Glendo Reservoir is also a longer drive away, and the Laramie River is another option for time by the water.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Platte County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Platte County had 3,337 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 60°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Guernsey 2NW weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Platte County
- Platte County School District #1School district185FTE
- Platte County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital107FTE
- Platte County School District #2School district62FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores57
- Wheatland Rural Electric AssociationDistribution of electric power22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79 people in all across the county; Guernsey 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Guernsey’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 Platte County.
Guernsey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Guernsey$186,374
- 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.
- Guernsey12
Zip codes with a Guernsey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Guernsey — 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.