Newcastle, Wyoming.
Typical home $249,121 (+1.1% in a year). Gillette, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$671 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,707 +1%
- $246,414$249,121 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,348 +24%
- $200,773$249,121 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.
- Newcastle$1,308
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Newcastle, WY rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Newcastle, Weston County, Wyoming
Newcastle is a city of 3,374 people in Weston County. Half its households earn more than $82,734 a year and half less, against $89,509 across Weston County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Weston County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newcastle is a small city in Weston County, Wyoming, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot days and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Residents work mainly in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops and in government. Across Weston County, the largest workplaces are the Weston County School District and Weston County Health Services, a critical access hospital. Jobs across the county have slipped a little from the year before, and unemployment there is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. Jewel Cave National Monument, a protected area, and Harney National Forest are both a longer drive away, and they are the closest big stretches of public land for exploring. Bedrock City, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away. Several small creeks in the surrounding country, among them Heely Creek and Negro Creek, are likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 1,229households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Weston County had 2,356 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 60°. About 39 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newcastle weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Weston County
- Weston County School District #1School district152FTE
- Weston County Health ServicesCritical access hospital120FTE
- Weston County School District #7School district62FTE
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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newcastle’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 Weston County and the Gillette, WY metro.
Newcastle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newcastle$249,121
- Wyoming$369,044
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Newcastle listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Newcastle23.71%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newcastle30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newcastle7
Zip codes with a Newcastle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newcastle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.