Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Wyoming commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 5% of workers; Illinois has 16%. There are 290 jobs in Wyoming, and 557 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Wyoming are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Wyoming in brief
Wyoming’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wyoming is Peoria, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (83) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Wyoming are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois 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 557 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Wyoming’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Wyoming is better than 26% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Wyoming’s grade.
Unemployment (2.4%) 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 D to B−.
Half of Wyoming commutes less than 24 miles
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
Wyoming’s commute takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wyoming workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 651 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Who works in Wyoming, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 509 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 242 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Wyoming on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
15% of working residents work in Peoria
Where Wyoming clocks in
Lines 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.
Making and building: 53% of jobs based in Wyoming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wyoming, 2013 → 2023: 384 → 290. 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.
Most of Wyoming commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wyoming is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 684 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.4% of Wyoming households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Wyoming’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Wyoming comes 2,965th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,963 | Fifth Ward LA | 1,277 | $51K | 5.7% | 5.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,964 | Craig AK | 1,062 | $68K | 7.9% | 4.6% | — | C |
| 2,965 | Wyoming IL | 1,287 | $60K | 11.8% | 2.4% | 9% | C |
| 2,966 | Valley Mills TX | 1,293 | $52K | 12.0% | 1.9% | 4% | C |
| 2,967 | George WA | 1,024 | $55K | 6.0% | 4.5% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Illinois.
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?
$60,238 (±$17,492) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wyoming?
11.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wyoming?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wyoming work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (15%, 23 mi), Toulon (6%, 5 mi), West Jersey Township (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wyoming walkable?
Wyoming is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wyoming without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
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.