Lovelock, Nevada.
Typical home $238,376 (-6.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$735 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,288 -6%
- $253,664$238,376 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,346 +27%
- $187,030$238,376 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.
- Lovelock$1,251
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lovelock, NV fell 6.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada
Lovelock is a city of 1,805 people in Pershing County. Unemployment in Pershing County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 6.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pershing County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lovelock is a small city, the kind of place where people are likely to know one another. Across Pershing County, household incomes are modest, and homes in town are typically worth less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and snow falling only lightly, while July brings hot days. The year is dry, with little rain or melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, and many others in schools, hospitals and social care. Restaurants, hotels and entertainment employ a good number too, as do the building trades. Across Pershing County, the largest workplaces are Pershing Schools, Pershing General Hospital and Safeway. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and few work from home.
Things to do. Rye Patch State Recreation Area, a protected area, lies a longer drive away and sits beside Rye Patch Reservoir, which draws people to the water. Lake Lahontan is another lake a longer drive from town. For a look at the region's deep past, Lovelock Cave is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Pershing County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pershing County had 2,108 jobs in 2025, 6.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 56°. About 11 inches of snow and 6 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lovelock weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pershing County
- Pershing SchoolsSchool district95FTE
- Pershing General HospitalCritical access hospital76FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 25 people in all across the county; Lovelock has one 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Lovelock’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 Pershing County.
Lovelock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lovelock$238,376
- 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.
- Lovelock11
Zip codes with a Lovelock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lovelock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.