You Won’t Believe What Homes Are Selling for in These Parts of Wyoming

Living in Wyoming is fantastic unless you're looking to buy a home in certain towns around the state. The prices of houses over the last 15 years have skyrocketed to incredible heights.

Let me jump back a second.

Depending on where you're buying a house, prices have skyrocketed over the last 15 years.

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I'm fairly certain you won't be surprised to hear that homes in Northwest Wyoming have experienced the most significant growth; however, even 15 years ago, they were already quite expensive.

If your family invested in land and houses in the 1990s or early 2000s, I assume you're living comfortably today, as home prices in some Wyoming towns have doubled or nearly tripled in value.

Websites like Zillow provide valuable data to help you estimate the value of your home or the current state of the housing market.

Home Stratosphere, a one-stop website for current homeowners, future homeowners, or those looking for investment properties, has put those numbers to work and compiled a list of the top towns where it's the most expensive to buy a home. One of the interesting aspects of their findings is that it's not the larger Wyoming cities that win the housing price battles; it's the smaller communities that are making a significant impact.

It's no secret that Wyoming's population continues to grow, just like the prices of houses, but it may not be growing as fast as you think. According to macrotrends.net, there have only been just under 8,000 people moving into Wyoming in the last five years.

Let's start with the areas where housing prices are the highest.