A job hub: Arapahoe has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 618 people come in to work
Working residents average 16 minutes each way (Wyoming 19, U.S. 26). There are 677 jobs in Arapahoe, and 365 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Arapahoe are D for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Arapahoe at work: what stands out
Arapahoe and Riverton trade workers both ways
Riverton is the top workplace for Arapahoe residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Arapahoe come from (33% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Arapahoe is where the jobs are
Arapahoe has 677 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 365 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Arapahoe earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Arapahoe is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Arapahoe’s grade up ($70,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (12.3%) is left out: Arapahoe’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Arapahoe could be anywhere from D to C.
Who travels to work in Arapahoe, and from where
Where Arapahoe clocks in
22% 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 daily commute in and out of Arapahoe
On a workday 306 residents head out to work and 59 work right here.
About 1,600 people are in Arapahoe on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Services make up most of the work in Arapahoe
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arapahoe, 2014 → 2024: 872 → 677. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Arapahoe’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Arapahoe’s commute takes 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 Arapahoe workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 455 commuters (the 9% 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.
The commute from Arapahoe, by distance
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Arapahoe is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Arapahoe is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.8% across Wyoming, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 501 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). 4.3% of Arapahoe households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Arapahoe’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Arapahoe comes 3,723rd 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 432 | Rafter J Ranch WY | 1,293 | $161K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 575 | Hoback WY | 1,316 | $147K | 1.7% | 1.8% | 11% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 890 | Story WY | 1,054 | $114K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,721 | Elk Township MI | 1,025 | $56K | 9.9% | 4.6% | 1% | D |
| 3,722 | Toppers OK | 1,029 | $52K | 23.4% | 7.6% | 0% | D |
| 3,723 | Arapahoe WY | 1,240 | $70K | 18.1% | 12.3% | 16% | D |
| 3,724 | Auxvasse MO | 1,029 | $56K | 29.8% | 8.1% | 2% | D |
| 3,725 | Plentywood MT | 1,619 | $68K | 14.7% | 3.3% | 59% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Arapahoe, the top three, the last and three more from Wyoming.
22% of Arapahoe works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Riverton. Darker towns draw more of Arapahoe’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 2024, 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 Arapahoe: questions
What is the median household income in Arapahoe?
$70,000 (±$6,294) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arapahoe?
18.1%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arapahoe?
16 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arapahoe work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Riverton (22%, 5 mi), Fort Washakie (15%, 23 mi), Ethete (9%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Arapahoe walkable?
Arapahoe is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Arapahoe without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arapahoe, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arapahoe
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.