Wellington, Nevada.
Typical home $431,903 (+4.0% in a year). Gardnerville Ranchos, NV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,188 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,578 +4%
- $415,325$431,903 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,184 +11%
- $389,719$431,903 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.
- Wellington$2,267
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Wellington, NV rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellington, Douglas County, Nevada
The Census does not count Wellington on its own, so the figures here are Douglas County's. Half the county's households earn more than $90,754 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Douglas County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Douglas County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellington sits in Douglas County in western Nevada, in a valley shaped by the Sierra Nevada and the Walker River. Winters bring colder weather than most of the country, with snow that is steady enough to shape daily life, while summers run hot and dry. Across Douglas County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews older than in much of the country, which gives the area a settled, neighborly feel. Typical home values here run well above those in many parts of the country.
Work. Across Douglas County, most jobs are in schools, hospitals and social care, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Jobs grew over the past year, and unemployment has stayed low. Household incomes are fairly high, and only a small share of residents live below the poverty line, though many adults still commute to work rather than working from home. A good number of residents hold a college degree.
Things to do. Topaz Lake, a reservoir a longer drive away, is one of the best known spots nearby for open water and shoreline. Grover Hot Springs State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area with hot springs. The East Walker River, another longer drive away, is a river that suits anyone who enjoys a quiet day by moving water.
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- 21,325households
- 55.0median age
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Douglas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 21,634 jobs in 2025, 4.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 55°. About 18 inches of snow and 6 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Topaz Lake weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas County
- Caesars EntertainmentCasino hotel860
- Caesars Republic Lake TahoeCasino hotel762
- Douglas SchoolsSchool district584FTE
- OS OperationsControl equipment, electric, manufacturing578
- Edgewood Tahoe ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities486
- Starbucks Carson Valley Roasting Plant and Distribution CenterCoffee roasting451
- Golden Nugget - Hard Rock TahoeCasino hotels368
- Carson Valley Medical CenterCritical access hospital347FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,297 people in all. 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Douglas County, 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 Douglas County and the Gardnerville Ranchos, NV metro.
Wellington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellington$431,903
- 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.
Zip codes with a Wellington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.