Reliance School and Gymnasium · Photo: Realwyo · CC BY-SA 3.0For about half of its working residents, Reliance is a commute to Rock Springs
Hardly any work in Reliance; the top destination outside it is Rock Springs (49%, 5 miles). 0% of workers work from home, where Wyoming as a whole has 9%. Commuters spend 53 minutes getting to work on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Reliance and work: the main findings
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Reliance’s working residents have a job less than 7 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 53 minutes, longer than the Wyoming average of 19. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Reliance than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Reliance fell from 581 in 2013 to 248 in 2023, −57%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 227 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The trip to work from Reliance: about 53 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Reliance workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 395 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.
Where the trip to work from Reliance ends
Where Reliance clocks in
49% of workers
4% 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.
40% of the jobs in Reliance make or build things
248 jobs are based in Reliance.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Reliance, 2013 → 2023: 581 → 248. 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 Reliance’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Reliance for work, and who comes in
On a workday 225 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 246 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 (1.09 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Reliance
About 26% 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 Reliance: questions
What is the poverty rate in Reliance?
0.0%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Reliance?
53 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Reliance work?
1% work in town.
Can you get around Reliance 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 Reliance, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reliance
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.