Wright, Wyoming.
Typical home $267,277 (-6.9% in a year). Gillette, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$692 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $19,686 -7%
- $286,962$267,277 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,062 +22%
- $219,214$267,277 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.
- Wright$1,403
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Wright, WY fell 6.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wright, Campbell County, Wyoming
Wright is a town of 1,644 people in Campbell County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Campbell County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Campbell County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wright is a small town in Campbell County, Wyoming, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and the commute to work is short. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, while the year as a whole stays fairly dry.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Campbell County, the largest workplaces include Campbell County School District, Campbell County Memorial Hospital and Cyclone Drilling. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Thunder Basin National Grassland is a protected area of open prairie, a longer drive away. The Belle Fourche River is also a longer drive away, for time spent along the water. Both suit a day out rather than an hour's trip.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 19 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Campbell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Campbell County had 24,657 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 54°. About 58 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wright 12W weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Campbell County
- Campbell County School District #1School district1,594FTE
- Campbell County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital772FTE
- Campbell County GovernmentExecutive and legislative office combinations743
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters438
- Cyclone DrillingDrilling oil and gas field service wells on a contract basis373
- Wyoming Machinery CompanyHeavy equipment sales, rental and service207
- Campbell County HealthHomes for the elderly with nursing care191
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores136
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,558 people in all across the county; Wright has none 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wright’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 Campbell County and the Gillette, WY metro.
Wright home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wright$267,277
- Wyoming$369,044
- 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 Wright address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wright — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.