Photo: William Grimes at English Wikipedia · Public domainMost of Wyoming commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Wyoming report 357 jobs; 657 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Wyoming is better than 37% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (A−). Home is the office for 6% of workers; Delaware has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wyoming and work: the main findings
Wyoming and Dover trade workers both ways
Dover is the top workplace for Wyoming residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Wyoming come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Wyoming are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Delaware. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Delaware worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 657 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Wyoming gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Wyoming’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (18.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (12.3%) is left out: Wyoming’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wyoming could be anywhere from C− to A−.
27% of working residents work in Dover
Where Wyoming clocks in
27% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Getting to work from Wyoming takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wyoming workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 753 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Delaware: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The daily commute in and out of Wyoming
On a workday 648 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 348 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Wyoming on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Wyoming’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wyoming, 2013 → 2023: 312 → 357. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wyoming’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Wyoming’s workers travel
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Wyoming, walking beats the bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.9% across Delaware.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 797 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 88% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 74% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.2% of Wyoming households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Wyoming’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wyoming next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500: 3,007th of 5,656 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
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| 85 | St. Georges DE | 1,530 | $132K | 0.4% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 427 | Lincoln DE | 1,873 | $108K | 0.0% | 1.9% | 2% | A |
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| 445 | Bellefonte DE | 1,313 | $91K | 5.5% | 4.9% | 1% | A |
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| 3,005 | Cranberry Township OH | 1,422 | $68K | 9.1% | 1.3% | 14% | C+ |
| 3,006 | Kingstown MD | 1,713 | $94K | 19.7% | 3.2% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,007 | Wyoming DE | 1,865 | $70K | 18.5% | 12.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,008 | Demorest GA | 2,262 | $78K | 10.9% | 7.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 3,009 | Green Township IN | 1,308 | $72K | 11.8% | 1.1% | <1% | C+ |
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| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Wyoming, the top three, the last and three more from Delaware.
Next door to Wyoming
The biggest share goes to Camden (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wyoming workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | – | C+ | A− | 21 min | $69,603 |
| Camden | 8% | B+ | B+ | 20 min | $63,267 |
| Rodney Village | under 2% | C− | A+ | 20 min | $43,558 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wyoming’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Wyoming: questions
What is the median household income in Wyoming?
$69,603 (±$12,957) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wyoming?
18.5%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wyoming?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wyoming work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dover (27%, 4 mi), Camden (8%, 1 mi), Smyrna (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wyoming walkable?
Wyoming is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 13.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wyoming without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 88% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wyoming, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wyoming
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.