Tonopah, Nevada.
Typical home $156,491 (-3.3% in a year). Pahrump, NV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$215 (+35%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,289 -3%
- $161,780$156,491 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $49,264 -24%
- $205,754$156,491 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.
- Tonopah$821
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Tonopah, NV fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada
Tonopah, in Nye County, had 2,179 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Nye County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nye County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 26 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tonopah is a small community in Nye County, Nevada, in high desert country. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers are warm without being extreme. Very little rain or melted snow falls in a year, so the climate is dry. Incomes in the county sit near the middle of what households earn in many parts of the country, and few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many people in Tonopah work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and then shops. Across Nye County, the largest workplaces include Nye Schools, Walmart and Desert View Regional Medical Center. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly. Relatively few people work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole.
Things to do. Tonopah Historic Mining Park is in or beside town and is the kind of place that rewards an unhurried afternoon. The Central Nevada Museum is also in or beside town, a small museum suited to learning about the area's past. Both are close enough to visit on foot or with a short drive, and together they make an easy day out.
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- 1,039households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Nye County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nye County had 13,712 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 61°. About 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tonopah weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nye County
- Nye SchoolsSchool district856FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters376
- Desert View Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital213FTE
- Golden Pahrump NuggetCasino hotels208
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes133
- Smiths Food And DrugSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores124
- US Ecology NevadaHazardous waste treatment facilities123
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores103
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,085 people in all across the county; Tonopah has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tonopah’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 Nye County and the Pahrump, NV metro.
Tonopah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tonopah$156,491
- Nevada$440,739
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tonopah10
Zip codes with a Tonopah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tonopah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Tonopah
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89049 | Tonopah | 2,723 | — | $155,457 |
| 89001 | Alamo | 1,033 | — | $235,631 |