Powell, Wyoming.
Typical home $418,619 (-0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,232 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $566 -0%
- $419,184$418,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,776 +28%
- $327,842$418,619 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.
- Powell$2,197
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Powell, WY fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Powell, Park County, Wyoming
Powell is a city of 6,419 people in Park County. Half its households earn more than $63,523 a year and half less, against $73,035 across Park County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Park County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Powell is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow through the season, while summers are warm in July. Precipitation is light across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, the building trades and shops also employing a good share. Powell Valley Health Care, Park County School District and Ranch and Home Supply are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Park County is low and about where it stood a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Shoshone River, a river a longer drive away, offers a place to spend time outdoors. Buffalo Bill Center of the West is a museum a longer drive away, and Buffalo Bill State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive from town. Together they give a mix of history and open country within reach of Powell.
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- 2,713households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Park County had 13,985 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 52°. About 11 inches of snow and 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Powell Field Station weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Powell
- Powell Valley Health CareCritical access hospital428FTE
- Park County School District # 1School district333FTE
- Ranch and Home SupplyRetail47
- Fremont PowellBaby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 67 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Powell’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 Park County.
Powell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Powell$418,619
- Wyoming$369,044
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Powell listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Powell24.47%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Powell80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Powell19
Zip codes with a Powell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Powell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.