Smoot, Wyoming.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$999 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
Living in Smoot, Lincoln County, Wyoming
Smoot, in Lincoln County, had 376 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smoot is a very small community in Lincoln County, Wyoming, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and dry enough to enjoy being outdoors.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Lincoln County, some of the largest workplaces are Star Valley Hospital, Lincoln County School District #2 and ExxonMobil Production Company. Joblessness is low, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Bridger National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, offering open country for hiking and time outdoors. Lake Alice is a lake, also a longer drive away, and Blackfoot River Wildlife Management Area is a protected area that is a longer drive away as well. With snowy winters, the area suits people who like cold-weather outdoor pastimes.
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What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 7,326 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 44°. About 88 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Afton weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Star Valley HospitalCritical access hospital502FTE
- Lincoln County School District #2School district473FTE
- ExxonMobil Production CompanyPetroleum, crude, production218
- South Lincoln Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital118FTE
- Lincoln County School District #1School district115FTE
- PacifiCorpElectric services100
- Broulims SupermarketsCommissaries, primarily groceries90
- Broulims SupermarketsCommissaries, primarily groceries85
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 711 people in all across the county; Smoot has none of its own. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Smoot’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lincoln County.
Smoot home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Smoot7
Zip codes with a Smoot address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smoot — 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.