Rock River, Wyoming.
Typical home $164,579 (-3.1% in a year). Laramie, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$397 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,350 -3%
- $169,929$164,579 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,444 +9%
- $151,135$164,579 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.
- Rock River$864
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Rock River, WY fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rock River, Albany County, Wyoming
Rock River is a town of 211 people in Albany County. Unemployment in Albany County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Albany County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rock River is a very small town on the high plains of Albany County, Wyoming, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and daytime highs staying below freezing, and summers are warm in July without turning extreme. Rain and melted snow add up to very little over a year, so the climate is dry.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops also employing many people. The biggest workplaces across Albany County include the University of Wyoming, the Albany County School District and Ivinson Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed. The typical commute is a long one for a town this size.
Things to do. Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest is a protected area of forest and mountain country, a longer drive away. Snowy Range Ski Area, also a longer drive away, suits the snowy winters. Fort Halleck is a historic fort, and Bamforth National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for wildlife, both a longer drive away as well.
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- 32 mintypical commute
What people in Albany County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Albany County had 17,110 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 48°. About 52 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Medicine Bow weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Albany County
- University of WyomingUniversity or college3,015
- Albany County School District #1School district688FTE
- Ivinson Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital489FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters424
- WyoTechTwo-year college205
- Ark Regional ServicesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability173
- Cathedral HomeBoys' and girls' residential facilities133
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,233 people in all across the county; Rock River has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rock River’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 Albany County and the Laramie, WY metro.
Rock River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rock River$164,579
- 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 Rock River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rock River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.