Photo: Craig Talbert · CC BY 2.0Work and commuting in Eden
For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Wyoming has 9%. Only 1% work in Eden; the top destination outside it is Rock Springs (27%, 34 miles). Working residents average 35 minutes each way; Wyoming averages 19, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Eden by day
On a workday 66 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 98 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Eden’s working residents head each day
Where Eden clocks in
27% of workers
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.
In Eden, 77% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
99 jobs are based in Eden.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eden, 2013 → 2023: 64 → 99. 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 Eden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Eden: about 35 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eden workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 232 commuters (the 0% 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 many miles Eden commutes
About 46% 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.
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 Eden: questions
What is the median household income in Eden?
$89,625 (±$32,436) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eden?
2.1%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eden?
35 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eden work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rock Springs (27%, 34 mi), Wamsutter (4%, 80 mi), Idaho Falls (3%, 165 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Eden without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eden
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.