Work means Casper for about half of Bar Nunn’s working residents
Only 1% work in Bar Nunn; the top destination outside it is Casper (50%, 6 miles). Jobs and income earn Bar Nunn A−; getting around on foot earns it D−. Measured by household income, Bar Nunn is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Bar Nunn apart
Most Bar Nunn residents work close to home
77% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. How far ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Bar Nunn’s working residents have a job less than 6 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 23 minutes, longer than the Wyoming average of 19. Time on the road ↓
Bar Nunn makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Bar Nunn are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bar Nunn residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Bar Nunn is a place people come home to
There are 334 jobs based in Bar Nunn, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bar Nunn has about 2,000 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. 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.
The four measures behind Bar Nunn’s grade
The poverty rate holds Bar Nunn’s grade up (2.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bar Nunn could be anywhere from B− to A.
The places Bar Nunn commutes to
Where Bar Nunn 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.
How far Bar Nunn’s workers travel
About 20% 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.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Bar Nunn
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bar Nunn workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,309 commuters (the 2% 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.
42% of the jobs in Bar Nunn make or build things
334 jobs are based in Bar Nunn.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bar Nunn, 2014 → 2024: 224 → 334. 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 Bar Nunn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Bar Nunn
On a workday 1,306 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 315 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Bar Nunn on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
0.25 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
For most of Bar Nunn, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bar Nunn is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns, #28 of 28 in Wyoming. Both inputs place Bar Nunn near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,342 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 4.3% of Bar Nunn households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bar Nunn’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Bar Nunn is 987th of 4,771 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 985 | Tuxedo NY | 3,116 | $109K | 9.1% | 2.9% | 5% | A− |
| 986 | Stephens City VA | 2,207 | $103K | 4.3% | 4.1% | 3% | A− |
| 987 | Bar Nunn WY | 3,012 | $99K | 2.2% | 3.6% | 1% | A− |
| 988 | Le Roy IL | 3,465 | $82K | 2.8% | 3.2% | 12% | A− |
| 989 | Heyworth IL | 2,869 | $97K | 6.1% | 3.2% | 11% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,424 | North Rock Springs WY | 2,277 | $104K | 9.0% | 1.6% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,742 | Newcastle WY | 3,349 | $83K | 7.3% | 0.4% | 46% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,054 | Evansville WY | 2,875 | $77K | 3.9% | 6.4% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Bar Nunn, the top three, the last and three more from Wyoming.
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 Bar Nunn: questions
What is the median household income in Bar Nunn?
$98,804 (±$15,016) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bar Nunn?
2.2%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bar Nunn?
23 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bar Nunn work?
1% work in town.
Is Bar Nunn walkable?
Bar Nunn is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bar Nunn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bar Nunn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bar Nunn
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.