Fort Halleck · Photo: Timothy H. O'Sullivan · Public domainMost of Elk Mountain commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
About one in ten work in Elk Mountain itself; outside it, Saratoga draws the most (22%, 26 miles). Employers in Elk Mountain report 22 jobs, and 50 of its residents work somewhere. 0% of workers work from home (Wyoming 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Elk Mountain on a workday afternoon
On a workday 45 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Elk Mountain on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer 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.
The towns that employ Elk Mountain’s residents
Where Elk Mountain clocks in
22% of workers
6% 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.
Making and building: 36% of jobs based in Elk Mountain
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elk Mountain, 2014 → 2024: 1 → 22. 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 Elk Mountain’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 38 minutes each way for Elk Mountain’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elk Mountain workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 78 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Elk Mountain
About 40% 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.
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 Elk Mountain: questions
What is the median household income in Elk Mountain?
$66,250 (±$30,386) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elk Mountain?
0.0%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elk Mountain?
38 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elk Mountain work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Saratoga (22%, 26 mi), Hanna (6%, 15 mi), Casper (6%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Elk Mountain 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 Elk Mountain, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elk Mountain
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.