Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0Wyoming has 2.0 jobs for every working resident: 399 people commute in to work
There are 407 jobs in Wyoming for 208 working residents. Only 4% work in Wyoming; the top destination outside it is Providence (14%, 26 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Rhode Island has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Wyoming
Wyoming’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wyoming is Providence, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (30) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Wyoming
66% of Wyoming residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 47% of the jobs based in Wyoming pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Few Wyoming workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 13% across Rhode Island. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 208 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The distance from Wyoming to work
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.
What Wyoming’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wyoming, 2013 → 2023: 465 → 407. 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.
The daily trip from Wyoming: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wyoming workers work from home, vs 13% across Rhode Island. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 114 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Rhode Island: 83% 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.
Who works in Wyoming, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 200 residents head out to work and 8 work right here.
About 520 people are in Wyoming on a workday afternoon, 62% more 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.
Where Wyoming’s workers come from
Where Wyoming clocks in
14% of workers
12% of workers
10% 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.
How Wyoming compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wyoming workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | – | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Hope Valley | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Hopkinton | under 3% | B | C+ | 26 min | $97,172 |
Same-state neighbors only. Hope Valley: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. 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 poverty rate in Wyoming?
0.0%, against 11.2% across Rhode Island and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wyoming?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Rhode Island and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wyoming work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Providence (14%, 26 mi), South Kingstown (12%, 10 mi), Richmond (10%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wyoming without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% 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.