Lusk, Wyoming.
Typical home $129,807 (-6.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$315 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,479 -7%
- $139,286$129,807 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,045 +7%
- $121,762$129,807 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.
- Lusk$681
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 54 years.
Typical home values in Lusk, WY fell 6.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lusk, Niobrara County, Wyoming
Lusk is a town of 1,541 people in Niobrara County. Half its households earn more than $68,507 a year and half less, against $64,113 across Niobrara County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Niobrara County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Niobrara 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lusk is a small town in Niobrara County, Wyoming, and it is the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Household incomes run somewhat above the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others are employed in farming, forestry and mining, the building trades, or banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces across Niobrara County are the Niobrara County School District and the Niobrara Health and Life Center. Only a small share of people work from home, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is the Hell Gap archaeological site, a longer drive away. It is an archaeological site, so it suits visitors who care about the deep history of the Plains.
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- 687households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Niobrara County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Niobrara County had 789 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lusk Southwest weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Niobrara County
- Niobrara County School District #1School district126FTE
- Niobrara Health and Life CenterCritical access hospital37FTE
- Niobrara Electric ADistribution of electric power21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 21 people in all across the county; Lusk has two 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lusk’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 Niobrara County.
Lusk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lusk$129,807
- 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.
- Lusk10
Zip codes with a Lusk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lusk — 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.