Best Places82426, WY Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 82426, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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82426 ranks 10,152nd of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low taxes by a wide margin, and distance from a big city ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in 82426

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 82426 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

82426's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Low taxes
Top 5%Low property taxes
Top 5%Low disaster risk
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 82426 with other zip codes.

Where 82426 ranks high

  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 98% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than 96% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than 95% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than 94% of zip codes
  • Nice weatherabout 158 pleasant days a year, better than 91% of zip codes

Where 82426 ranks low

  • Big-city accessBetter than only 3% of zip codes
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 8% of zip codes
  • Internet speedBetter than only 22% of zip codes
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 28% of zip codes
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 29% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 82426

A household needs to earn about $55,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 82426 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $66,170, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$55,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,288
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $226,073 home
Median rent
$830
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,153
Property tax$60
Homeowners insurance$75

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 82426's effective rate of 0.32%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 82426

82426's age mix sits close to the national median.

Median age
39
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
21%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.7
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1828%
18 to 3417%
35 to 4917%
50 to 6417%
65 and older21%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 82426.


Who works in 82426, and how

Work in 82426 centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
12%
below the national average
Unemployment
2.6%
below the national average
Job growth
+0.1%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social16%
Education9%
Retail trade9%
Construction9%
Agriculture & forestry8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 81%
  • Work from home 12%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 7%

Life in 82426

82426 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 85% of zip codes. That concentrates in some parts of 82426 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
21
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 86.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 85% of zip codes
Coffee shops
5
about 20.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 92% of zip codes

What the weather is like in 82426, month by month

82426 sees roughly 158 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 33, with lows near 5. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, August, and September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January33°18°
April63°46°31°
July95°76°57°
October64°46°31°

Flying in and out of 82426

The nearest airport, Yellowstone Regional, is about 49 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Salt Lake City International, about 325 miles away.

Nearest airport
COD
Yellowstone Regional, about 49 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
295th-busiest in the US, 1 nonstop destinations
Average drive
69 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 82426

Schools across 82426 average a B+, better than 73% of zip codes.

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 82426 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


82426 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 82426 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 82426

Is 82426 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 82426 ranks 10,152nd of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on low taxes, low property taxes, and low disaster risk, and lowest on distance from a big city and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 82426 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $226,073. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $66,170 median income, cost of living beats 38% of zip codes.

Is 82426 safe?

82426 is safer than 40% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $348 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 82426. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 82426 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

82426 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 82426: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 82426: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 82426: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 82426: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

82426 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.