Photo: Micha de Vries from Middelburg, Nederland · CC BY 2.0How Dubois works: jobs, income and commuting
408 jobs are based in Dubois, and 292 of its residents work somewhere. About half stay in Dubois for work; outside it, Riverton is the main destination (4%, 73 miles). A typical one-way commute from Dubois lasts 15 minutes (Wyoming 19, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Dubois
Half of Dubois commutes less than 3 miles
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The daily commute in and out of Dubois
On a workday 156 residents head out to work, 136 work right here, and 272 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Dubois on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Dubois goes to work
Where Dubois clocks in
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Dubois
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dubois, 2014 → 2024: 310 → 408. 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 Dubois’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 15 minutes from Dubois
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dubois workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 327 commuters (the 5% 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.
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 Dubois: questions
What is the median household income in Dubois?
$59,571 (±$20,936) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dubois?
10.6%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dubois?
15 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dubois work?
47% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Riverton (4%, 73 mi), Lander (3%, 68 mi), Gillette (2%, 212 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Dubois without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dubois, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dubois
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.