Photo: Andrew Farkas · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Glenrock have lower incomes than those in 66% of U.S. towns
Glenrock grades C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Poverty touches 6.5% of residents; Wyoming has 10.5%. At home: 1% of workers have no commute at all (Wyoming 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Glenrock: the figures worth knowing
Glenrock and Casper trade workers both ways
Casper is the top workplace for Glenrock residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Glenrock come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Glenrock workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 26 minutes each way, against 19 across Wyoming. Over a year that’s about 199 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 808 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Glenrock’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Glenrock is better than 39% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Glenrock’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Glenrock could be anywhere from D to B+.
19% of working residents work in Casper
Where Glenrock clocks in
5% 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.
Commuting from Glenrock: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glenrock workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,404 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.
Glenrock on a workday afternoon
On a workday 588 residents head out to work, 220 work right here, and 386 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.
0.75 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
What Glenrock’s employers do
606 jobs are based in Glenrock.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glenrock, 2013 → 2023: 484 → 606. 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 Glenrock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Glenrock goes to work
About 29% 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.
In Glenrock, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glenrock is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.8% across Wyoming, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,418 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). 0.0% of Glenrock households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glenrock’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Glenrock is 2,917th of 5,207 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 950 | Bar Nunn WY | 3,012 | $99K | 2.2% | 3.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,225 | South Park WY | 2,093 | $116K | 3.5% | 0.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,419 | North Rock Springs WY | 2,277 | $104K | 9.0% | 1.6% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,915 | Yountville CA | 3,198 | $80K | 14.7% | 5.6% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,916 | Port Carbon PA | 1,806 | $61K | 10.6% | 4.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,917 | Glenrock WY | 2,418 | $65K | 6.5% | 4.2% | 27% | C+ |
| 2,918 | Montebello Township IL | 3,189 | $60K | 12.6% | 2.4% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,919 | Twin Township OH | 2,649 | $72K | 14.6% | 4.7% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Glenrock, 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 Glenrock: questions
What is the median household income in Glenrock?
$64,806 (±$11,784) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glenrock?
6.5%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glenrock?
26 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glenrock work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Casper (19%, 24 mi), Douglas (5%, 24 mi), Gillette (3%, 99 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glenrock walkable?
Glenrock is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glenrock without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glenrock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glenrock
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.