St. Michael's Mission · Photo: 25or6to4 · CC BY-SA 4.0Ethete at work: jobs, income and the commute
About one in seven stay in Ethete for work; outside it, Fort Washakie is the main destination (20%, 10 miles). Ethete grades C− for jobs and income and D− for walkability. The trip to work takes 17 minutes on average; Wyoming averages 19, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Ethete
Household income holds Ethete’s grade up ($80,833, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (28.6%) is left out: Ethete’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ethete could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who works in Ethete, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 209 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 346 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Ethete on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
1.6 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.
The daily trip into Ethete
Where Ethete clocks in
13% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Ethete
378 jobs are based in Ethete.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ethete, 2013 → 2023: 477 → 378. 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 Ethete’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 17 minutes from Ethete
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ethete workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 339 commuters (the 13% 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.
The distance from Ethete to work
About 18% 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.
Most of Ethete commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ethete is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ethete 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 388 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.1% of Ethete households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ethete’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ethete is 3,707th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,705 | Richford NY | 1,018 | $66K | 14.1% | 2.1% | 2% | C− |
| 3,706 | Fairfield Township OH | 1,124 | $65K | 17.4% | 5.1% | 1% | C− |
| 3,707 | Ethete WY | 1,326 | $81K | 15.5% | 28.6% | 13% | C− |
| 3,708 | Eaton IN | 1,586 | $55K | 14.8% | 3.0% | 5% | C− |
| 3,709 | Decatur MI | 1,646 | $62K | 19.7% | 7.3% | 9% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Ethete, 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 Ethete: questions
What is the median household income in Ethete?
$80,833 (±$20,074) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ethete?
15.5%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ethete?
17 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ethete work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Washakie (20%, 10 mi), Arapahoe (17%, 13 mi), Riverton (13%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ethete walkable?
Ethete is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ethete without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ethete, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ethete
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.