Living in Greybull, WY

Big Horn County

Greybull is a real, current central Big Horn County agricultural town in Wyoming, distinct from its larger neighbor Lovell despite sharing the same Big Horn Basin geography. Greybull's economy centers on cattle and sheep ranching, sugar-beet farming, and bentonite shale mining (Wyoming is the nation's leading bentonite producer, and Greybull has hosted two production facilities for more than 70 years), alongside a real, well-documented, nationally notable aerial-firefighting aviation history: Greybull has been a hub for aerial firefighting since 1946, and Hawkins & Powers Aviation, founded at the town's airport in 1969, grew to employ more than 200 people at its 2002 peak flying surplus military air tankers on U.S. Forest Service wildfire contracts across North America -- before two 2002 airtanker crashes prompted a Forest Service shift away from that fleet, and the company closed in 2006. The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting preserves that history today. Greybull's population runs approximately 1,700 (Wyoming's own 2025 state estimate), and its housing market carries a real, disclosed cross-source spread, with the more methodologically stable zip-code-level figure ($235,462) running well below Wyoming's own statewide average. Greybull's senior (65+) population share (19.1%-19.89%) runs above the national comparison figure.

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Housing

Median sale price$235,462

Zip-code-level average home value $235,462, chosen over a dramatically higher small-sample Movoto sale-price citation for this record's primary field -- see notes.

Taxes

Local effective property tax rate0.70%

Not independently sourced at the Big Horn County level this session. Wyoming carries no income tax statewide. See the Wyoming hub page for the statewide property tax context -- do not treat that figure as Greybull-specific.

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The tradeoffs

Pros

Genuine housing affordability by the more methodologically stable zip-code-level figure, well below Wyoming's own statewide average. Wyoming's real, constitutional 0% state income tax advantage applies directly, alongside a genuinely low county-level property tax rate. A real, distinctive, nationally notable aerial-firefighting aviation history, preserved at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting. A real, disclosed above-national senior population share makes Greybull a genuinely retiree-relevant market.

Cons

A real, disclosed, genuinely wide cross-source spread on both population and housing-price figures this record does not force into one confident number. This pass's crime-rate citations are genuinely dated (2016-2018) rather than current, a real, disclosed research gap. Greybull's own hospital access runs through a facility in nearby Basin rather than in-town. A real, semi-arid climate with Wyoming's statewide #2 wildfire-risk ranking, directly underscored by the town's own aerial-firefighting history.

Who this fits

Best for: Best fits retirees, cost-conscious movers, and those drawn to a genuinely distinctive small-town identity -- Big Horn Basin agriculture and bentonite mining paired with a real, nationally notable aerial-firefighting aviation history.

Maybe not for you if: Probably not the right fit for movers who need current, precisely sourced crime data or in-town hospital access, or who are not prepared for a real, hot, dry summer/cold winter steppe climate and the state's disclosed, above-average wildfire-risk profile -- a risk Greybull's own aviation history directly reflects.

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Last reviewed: 2026-09-02. Independent research; see individual metric entries above for source attribution. This is not financial, tax, or legal advice -- confirm current figures with a local professional before making a decision.