Superior, Wyoming.
Typical home $90,368 (+21.6% in a year). Rock Springs, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$177 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,048 +22%
- $74,319$90,368 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,075 -6%
- $96,443$90,368 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.
- Superior$474
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Superior, WY rose 21.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Superior, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Superior is a town of 184 people in Sweetwater County. Unemployment in Sweetwater County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sweetwater County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Superior is a very small town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, where homes cost far less than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Snow falls through much of the year, while rain and melted snow add up to little, so the climate is dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in shops and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Sweetwater County, the largest workplaces include the Sweetwater County School District, Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and Western Wyoming Community College. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, and the typical commute to work is a long one.
Things to do. The one nearby place on the list is Point of Rocks Stage Station State Historic Site, a protected area a longer drive away. It is the kind of stop that suits a day trip for anyone curious about the region's past.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
What people in Sweetwater County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sweetwater County had 20,348 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 55°. About 54 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rock Springs Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sweetwater County
- Sweetwater County School District #1School district760FTE
- Mem. Hospt. of Sweetwater CountyGeneral hospital494FTE
- Sweetwater County School District #2School district465FTE
- Western Wyoming Community CollegeUniversity or college464
- JR Simplot CoFertilizer manufacturing328
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- PacifiCorpElectric services235
- Church and Dwight - Green River PlantManufacturing and packaging of baking soda,and manufacturing and packaging of other consumer goods.154
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,921 people in all across the county; Superior 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 weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Superior’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Sweetwater County and the Rock Springs, WY metro.
Superior home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Superior$90,368
- 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 Superior address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Superior — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.