Pine Bluffs High School · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Cheyenne draws more than half of Pine Bluffs’ working residents
For jobs and income Pine Bluffs is better than 22% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (B+). About one in ten stay in Pine Bluffs for work; outside it, Cheyenne is the main destination (51%, 38 miles). 3% of workers work from home, against 9% across Wyoming.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Pine Bluffs apart
More than half of Pine Bluffs works in Cheyenne
278 working residents, 51%, have their main job in Cheyenne, 38 miles away. That’s 4 times as many as work in Pine Bluffs itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Pine Bluffs are quick
The average trip to work takes 10 minutes, against 19 across Wyoming. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Wyoming 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 543 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Pine Bluffs gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Pine Bluffs’ grade up (10.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Pine Bluffs’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, Pine Bluffs could be anywhere from D to B−.
Where people from Pine Bluffs work
Where Pine Bluffs clocks in
51% 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.
A commute of about 10 minutes in Pine Bluffs
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Bluffs workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 573 commuters (the 3% 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.
Who leaves Pine Bluffs for work, and who comes in
On a workday 479 residents head out to work, 64 work right here, and 471 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 (0.99 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.
The 535 jobs based in Pine Bluffs
535 jobs are based in Pine Bluffs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Bluffs, 2013 → 2023: 576 → 535. 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 Pine Bluffs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Pine Bluffs to work
About 16% 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 trips from Pine Bluffs start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.8% across Wyoming, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 592 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). 4.1% of Pine Bluffs households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pine Bluffs’ commuters take a bus or train.
Pine Bluffs next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 2,482nd of 3,771 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 318 | Rafter J Ranch WY | 1,293 | $161K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 423 | Hoback WY | 1,316 | $147K | 1.7% | 1.8% | 11% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 668 | Story WY | 1,054 | $114K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,480 | Litchfield MI | 1,394 | $53K | 11.4% | 4.8% | 16% | C− |
| 2,481 | Miller SD | 1,313 | $58K | 7.6% | 0.0% | 35% | C− |
| 2,482 | Pine Bluffs WY | 1,111 | $68K | 10.6% | 0.7% | 12% | C− |
| 2,483 | Lyndon WI | 1,493 | $62K | 14.9% | 6.7% | 2% | C− |
| 2,484 | Saybrook-on-the-Lake OH | 1,001 | $49K | 11.3% | 4.7% | 0% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Pine Bluffs, 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 Pine Bluffs: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Bluffs?
$67,905 (±$10,436) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Bluffs?
10.6%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Bluffs?
10 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Bluffs work?
12% work in town.
Is Pine Bluffs walkable?
Pine Bluffs is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Bluffs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Bluffs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Bluffs
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.