Midwest, Wyoming.
Typical home $42,620 (-7.0% in a year). Casper, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $2 (-1%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,210 -7%
- $45,830$42,620 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $30,415 -42%
- $73,036$42,620 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.
- Midwest$224
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Midwest, WY fell 7.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Midwest, Natrona County, Wyoming
Midwest is a town of 285 people in Natrona County. Half its households earn more than $77,800 a year and half less, against $72,156 across Natrona County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Natrona County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Natrona County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Midwest is a very small town in Natrona County, Wyoming, with far fewer residents than most places people think of as towns. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run a little above the county's, while homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm in July. Precipitation is light across the year, so this is a dry place.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Natrona County, the largest workplaces include the Natrona County School District, Wyoming Medical Center and Casper College. Relatively few residents hold a four-year degree, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. The Powder River and the Belle Fourche River are both a longer drive away, and each offers a chance to get out along a Wyoming waterway. Fort Reno, a historic fort, is also a longer drive from town. Trips here take some planning, so it helps to set aside a good part of a day.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Natrona County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Natrona County had 40,157 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 35° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 53°. About 46 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Midwest weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Natrona County
- Natrona County School District #1School district2,134FTE
- City of CasperGeneral accounting offices, government740
- Wyoming Medical CenterGeneral hospital727FTE
- Casper CollegeTwo-year college507
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters372
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters359
- Wyoming Machinery CompanyHeavy equipment sales, rental and service256
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes209
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,777 people in all across the county; Midwest has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Midwest’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 Natrona County and the Casper, WY metro.
Midwest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Midwest$42,620
- 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.
Zip codes with a Midwest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Midwest — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.