Thermopolis, Wyoming.
Typical home $213,724 (+2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$643 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,761 +3%
- $207,963$213,724 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,409 +44%
- $148,315$213,724 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.
- Thermopolis$1,122
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Thermopolis, WY rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thermopolis, Hot Springs County, Wyoming
Thermopolis is a town of 2,725 people in Hot Springs County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Hot Springs County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thermopolis is a small town in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are modest, and incomes in the county are on the lower side, with a sizeable share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot by July and the year as a whole is fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment and government also common. Some work in farming, forestry and mining, and few work from home. Across Hot Springs County, the biggest workplaces include the Hot Springs County School District, HOT Springs County Memorial and Empres Operated By Evergreen. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Hot Springs State Park, a protected area, and the Wyoming Dinosaur Center, a museum, are both in or beside town. The Wind River, a river, is a short drive away. Boysen Reservoir is a longer drive away for time on the water.
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- 1,290households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hot Springs County had 1,897 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 57°. About 27 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thermopolis weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hot Springs County
- Hot Springs County School District #1School district144FTE
- HOT Springs County MemorialCritical access hospital142FTE
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 57 people in all across the county; Thermopolis has two of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thermopolis’ 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 Hot Springs County.
Thermopolis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thermopolis$213,724
- Wyoming$369,044
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Thermopolis listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Thermopolis21.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Thermopolis26
Zip codes with a Thermopolis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thermopolis — 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.