A typical Thayne home is worth roughly $395,000
Builders were permitted 7 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Thayne?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
66% of Thayne households own their home
Half of Thayne’s homes were built before 1995.
Wyoming: 72% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A typical home costs 5.1 years of income
About the same as across Wyoming. Try your own numbers below.
That’s $71K short of a typical Thayne home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,350 a month here, $870 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Thayne’s typical property tax (0.44% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,350
Renters already here pay a median of $1,346.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Caribou County, ID): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
7 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 7 new homes in Thayne in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $2.8 million to build. Over the past 10 years, Thayne has permitted 47 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Thayne gained 14 residents while 14 new homes were permitted: about 1 new resident per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. Across Wyoming: 0.7 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 6 | 6 | 0 | $2.6 million |
| 2025 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $2.8 million |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $764,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | 4 | 16 | $4 million |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $297,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $297,000 |
| 2019 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $479,000 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $479,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $291,000 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $292,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $229,000 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $440,000 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2 | 4 | $865,000 |
| 2006 | 7 | 0 | 7 | $741,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $174,000 |
| 2004 | 5 | 1 | 4 | $447,000 |
| 2003 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $631,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $151,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $139,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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What Thayne buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.