Photo: CosmicPenguin at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5Basin’s household incomes are lower than in 65% of U.S. towns
14.9% of residents are in poverty (Wyoming 10.5%). Basin grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. <1% of workers work from home (Wyoming 9%). Household incomes here are lower than in 65% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Basin: the figures worth knowing
Basin is where the jobs are
Basin has 573 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Basin workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 9% across Wyoming. 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 371 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Basin
On income, poverty and job access, Basin is better than 12% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Basin’s grade up ($65,515, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Basin’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, Basin could be anywhere from D− to C+.
The daily commute in and out of Basin
On a workday 275 residents head out to work, 96 work right here, and 477 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Basin on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Miles to work from Basin
About 31% 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.
The trip to work from Basin: about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Basin workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 686 commuters (the <1% 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.
Where Basin’s workforce comes from
Where Basin clocks in
7% of workers
3% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Basin
573 jobs are based in Basin.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Basin, 2013 → 2023: 572 → 573. 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 Basin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Basin is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Basin is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Basin 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 689 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). 0.6% of Basin households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Basin’s commuters take a bus or train.
Basin places 4,306th of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 488 | Rafter J Ranch WY | 1,293 | $161K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 658 | Hoback WY | 1,316 | $147K | 1.7% | 1.8% | 11% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,014 | Story WY | 1,054 | $114K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,304 | Waymart PA | 1,287 | $52K | 21.1% | 1.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,305 | Bangs TX | 1,523 | $48K | 13.0% | 2.6% | 10% | D |
| 4,306 | Basin WY | 1,334 | $66K | 14.9% | 0.0% | 26% | D |
| 4,307 | Sheridan Township MI | 1,652 | $64K | 20.7% | 6.6% | 1% | D |
| 4,308 | Brownington VT | 1,016 | $76K | 21.5% | 4.6% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Basin, 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 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 Basin: questions
What is the median household income in Basin?
$65,515 (±$10,368) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Basin?
14.9%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Basin?
15 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. <1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Basin work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Worland (7%, 25 mi), Greybull (5%, 7 mi), Cody (3%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Basin walkable?
Basin is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Basin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Basin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Basin
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.