Wheatland, Wyoming.
Typical home $287,093 (+0.1% in a year). Laramie, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$740 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $146 +0%
- $286,947$287,093 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,430 +21%
- $236,663$287,093 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.
- Wheatland$1,507
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Wheatland, WY rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wheatland, Platte County, Wyoming
Wheatland is a town of 3,588 people in Platte County. Half its households earn more than $58,750 a year and half less, against $67,718 across Platte County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Platte County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wheatland is a small town in Platte County, Wyoming, with a median age that sits close to the middle of adult life. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and homes are priced well above what the town's incomes might suggest. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while July brings hot days; precipitation is modest across the year.
Work. Many residents work in the building trades, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. The largest workplaces in town are the Platte County School District, Platte County Memorial Hospital and Safeway. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Things to do. Wheatland Reservoir is a short drive away and is the closest place to get out on the water. A longer drive brings you to Fort Laramie National Historic Site, a protected area that preserves a piece of the region's frontier past. Glendo Reservoir, also a longer drive away, offers another larger body of water for a day trip.
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- 1,564households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Platte County had 3,337 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 54°. About 40 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wheatland North weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wheatland
- Platte County School District #1School district185FTE
- Platte County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital107FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores57
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. 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 weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wheatland’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 Platte County and the Laramie, WY metro.
Wheatland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wheatland$287,093
- Wyoming$369,044
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Wheatland 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.
- Wheatland17.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wheatland53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wheatland10
Zip codes with a Wheatland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wheatland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.