West Wendover, Nevada.
Typical home $307,705 (+4.0% in a year). Elko, NV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$874 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,906 +4%
- $295,799$307,705 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,052 +26%
- $243,653$307,705 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.
- West Wendover$1,615
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in West Wendover, NV rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Wendover, Elko County, Nevada
West Wendover is a city of 4,512 people in Elko County. Unemployment in Elko County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Elko County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Wendover is a small city on the Nevada side of the line with Utah, out in dry, open country. Winters are cold, with highs only a little above freezing in January, and summers are hot in July. Very little rain or snow falls across the year. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than you might find in many places, and few people work from home.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, which fits a town on a state line. Others work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Across Elko County, the largest workplaces include Elko Schools, Great Basin College and Cactus Pete's, a resort hotel with a casino. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Historic Wendover Airfield is a museum in or beside town. A short drive away are Bonneville Speedway, a race track, and Danger Cave, an archaeological site. A longer drive brings you to the Bonneville Salt Flats, a vast dry lake bed, and to Blue Lake.
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- 2,169households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Elko County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Elko County had 22,540 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 4 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wendover Airport Awos weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Elko County
- Elko SchoolsSchool district976FTE
- National EWPDrilling water wells486
- Great Basin CollegeUniversity or college411
- Cactus Pete'sResort hotels with casinos346
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
- RAM EnterpriseConveyor belts, rubber, manufacturing324
- Northeastern Nevada Regional HospitaGeneral hospital203FTE
- Sandvik ElkoMining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services203
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,737 people in all across the county; West Wendover has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Wendover’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Elko County and the Elko, NV metro.
West Wendover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Wendover$307,705
- 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 West Wendover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Wendover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.