Hawthorne, Nevada.
Typical home $112,132 (-7.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$143 (+32%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,148 -8%
- $121,279$112,132 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $41,827 -27%
- $153,958$112,132 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.
- Hawthorne$589
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hawthorne, NV fell 7.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nevada
Hawthorne, in Mineral County, had 3,118 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Mineral County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 7.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mineral County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hawthorne is a small desert community in Mineral County, and life here runs at a quiet pace. Incomes are below what is typical for the wider country, and homes cost less than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in December, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Snow is light and rain is scarce.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Mineral County, the largest workplaces include Amentum Services, Mt. Grant General Hospital and Mineral Schools. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across the country, very few work from home, and the job market has been under some strain, with fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. In or beside town are the Hawthorne Ordnance Museum and the Mineral County Museum. A longer drive takes you to Walker Lake, the best known water in the area, and to Walker Lake State Recreation Area, a protected area on its shore. The Walker River, also a longer drive away, rounds out the outdoor options.
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- 1,112households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Mineral County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mineral County had 1,081 jobs in 2025, 7.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 63°. About 1 inches of snow and 4 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hawthorne weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mineral County
- Amentum Services366
- Mt. Grant General HospitalCritical access hospital70FTE
- Mineral SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 412 people in all across the county; Hawthorne has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hawthorne’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 Mineral County.
Hawthorne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hawthorne$112,132
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hawthorne15
Zip codes with a Hawthorne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hawthorne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.