Photo: Cfrolander · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Afton has 2.8 jobs per working resident, and 1,970 people come in to work
More than half work in Afton itself; outside it, Jackson draws the most (6%, 52 miles). 2,432 jobs are based in Afton for 866 working residents. Afton grades 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
What the numbers say about work in Afton
Where Afton’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Afton is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Afton’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Afton could be anywhere from D− to A−.
How a workday changes Afton
On a workday 404 residents head out to work and 462 work right here.
About 3,800 people are in Afton on a workday afternoon, 69% 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.
The towns that send workers to Afton
Where Afton clocks in
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Afton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Afton, 2013 → 2023: 1,892 → 2,432. 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 Afton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Afton: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Afton workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,444 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Wyoming: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Afton
About 23% 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.
Driving is how Afton gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Afton is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.8% across Wyoming.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,569 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). 2.9% of Afton households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Afton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000, Afton comes 3,258th 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,129 | South Park WY | 2,093 | $116K | 3.5% | 0.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,322 | North Rock Springs WY | 2,277 | $104K | 9.0% | 1.6% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,508 | Sleepy Hollow WY | 1,632 | $121K | 10.4% | 1.9% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,256 | Pearl River LA | 2,715 | $57K | 17.9% | 4.8% | 3% | C |
| 3,257 | Swanton VT | 2,380 | $67K | 20.1% | 3.0% | 8% | C |
| 3,258 | Afton WY | 2,256 | $64K | 9.9% | 3.9% | 53% | C |
| 3,259 | Franklin NY | 2,246 | $64K | 12.2% | 3.3% | 10% | C |
| 3,260 | Marathon NY | 1,960 | $64K | 10.4% | 7.4% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Afton, the top three, the last and three more from Wyoming.
Afton and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Afton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afton | – | C | C+ | 16 min | $63,586 |
| Osmond | under 1% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Osmond: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Afton’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 Afton: questions
What is the median household income in Afton?
$63,586 (±$39,082) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Afton?
9.9%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Afton?
16 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Afton work?
53% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (6%, 52 mi), Thayne (3%, 14 mi), Alpine (2%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Afton walkable?
Afton is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Afton without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Afton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Afton
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.