diff --git a/nixos/common.nix b/nixos/common.nix
index ee9a28cc9..b47b5c8e0 100644
--- a/nixos/common.nix
+++ b/nixos/common.nix
@@ -53,9 +53,16 @@ let
             };
 
             home = {
+              uid =
+                let
+                  # `users.users.<name>.uid` may be declared but unset on
+                  # nix-darwin, so probe it with `tryEval` instead of forcing a
+                  # no-value-defined error during module evaluation.
+                  userUid = builtins.tryEval config.users.users.${name}.uid;
+                in
+                mkIf (userUid.success && userUid.value != null) userUid.value;
               username = config.users.users.${name}.name;
               homeDirectory = config.users.users.${name}.home;
-              uid = mkIf (options.users.users.${name}.uid.isDefined or false) config.users.users.${name}.uid;
             };
 
             nix = {
diff --git a/tests/modules/home-environment/default.nix b/tests/modules/home-environment/default.nix
index c8dc446b8..6d0856d07 100644
--- a/tests/modules/home-environment/default.nix
+++ b/tests/modules/home-environment/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   home-session-search-variables = ./session-search-variables.nix;
   home-session-variables = ./session-variables.nix;
   home-nixpkgs-release-check-pkgs = ./nixpkgs-release-check-pkgs.nix;
+  home-uid-from-nixos = ./uid-from-nixos.nix;
   home-uid = ./uid.nix;
   home-uid-null = ./uid-null.nix;
 }
diff --git a/tests/modules/home-environment/uid-from-nixos.nix b/tests/modules/home-environment/uid-from-nixos.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..43687e90c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/home-environment/uid-from-nixos.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+{ lib, pkgs, ... }:
+let
+  nixosLib = import /${pkgs.path}/nixos/lib { inherit lib; };
+
+  getHomeUid =
+    userConfig:
+    (nixosLib.evalTest {
+      hostPkgs = pkgs;
+      nodes.machine.imports = [
+        ../../../nixos
+        {
+          users.users.alice = {
+            isNormalUser = true;
+          }
+          // userConfig;
+
+          home-manager.users.alice.home.stateVersion = "24.11";
+        }
+      ];
+    }).config.nodes.machine.home-manager.users.alice.home.uid;
+
+  getCommonModuleHomeUidResult =
+    userConfig:
+    builtins.tryEval (
+      (lib.evalModules {
+        specialArgs = {
+          inherit pkgs;
+          _class = "darwin";
+        };
+
+        modules = [
+          ../../../nixos/common.nix
+          (_: {
+            options.users.users = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.attrsOf (
+                lib.types.submodule (
+                  { name, ... }:
+                  {
+                    options = {
+                      name = lib.mkOption {
+                        type = lib.types.str;
+                        default = name;
+                      };
+                      home = lib.mkOption { type = lib.types.str; };
+                      uid = lib.mkOption { type = lib.types.int; };
+                      packages = lib.mkOption {
+                        type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.package;
+                        default = [ ];
+                      };
+                    };
+                  }
+                )
+              );
+              default = { };
+            };
+
+            options.environment.pathsToLink = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.str;
+              default = [ ];
+            };
+
+            options.nix.enable = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.bool;
+              default = true;
+            };
+
+            options.nix.package = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.package;
+              default = pkgs.nix;
+            };
+
+            options.warnings = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.str;
+              default = [ ];
+            };
+
+            options.assertions = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.listOf (
+                lib.types.submodule (_: {
+                  options.assertion = lib.mkOption { type = lib.types.bool; };
+                  options.message = lib.mkOption { type = lib.types.str; };
+                })
+              );
+              default = [ ];
+            };
+
+            config.users.users.alice = {
+              home = "/Users/alice";
+            }
+            // userConfig;
+
+            config.home-manager.users.alice.home.stateVersion = "24.11";
+          })
+        ];
+      }).config.home-manager.users.alice.home.uid
+    );
+
+  forwardedUid = builtins.toJSON (getHomeUid {
+    uid = 1000;
+  });
+  unsetUid = builtins.toJSON (getHomeUid { });
+  commonUnsetUidResult = getCommonModuleHomeUidResult { };
+  commonUnsetUidSuccess = builtins.toJSON commonUnsetUidResult.success;
+  commonUnsetUidValue = builtins.toJSON (
+    if commonUnsetUidResult.success then commonUnsetUidResult.value else "failed"
+  );
+in
+{
+  nmt.script = ''
+    test "${forwardedUid}" = '1000'
+    test "${unsetUid}" = 'null'
+    test "${commonUnsetUidSuccess}" = 'true'
+    test "${commonUnsetUidValue}" = 'null'
+  '';
+}