Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Pine Haven has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 1% stay in Pine Haven for work; outside it, Gillette is the main destination (18%, 34 miles). 38 jobs are based in Pine Haven; 160 of its residents have a job. The average commute takes 32 minutes each way, where Wyoming has 19 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Pine Haven for work, and who comes in
On a workday 158 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in Pine Haven on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Pine Haven work
Where Pine Haven clocks in
8% 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.
What Pine Haven’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Haven, 2013 → 2023: 54 → 38. 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 Haven’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Pine Haven: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Haven workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 187 commuters (the 7% 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 Pine Haven to work
About 30% 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 Pine Haven: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Haven?
$62,750 (±$15,162) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Haven?
4.3%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Haven?
32 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Haven work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gillette (18%, 34 mi), Sundance (13%, 22 mi), Moorcroft (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pine Haven without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Haven, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Haven
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.