Photo: Vasiliymeshko · CC BY-SA 4.0Riverton’s household incomes are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Riverton is better than 18% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (A). 11.9% of residents live below the poverty line, against 10.5% across Wyoming. About half stay in Riverton for work; outside it, Lander is the main destination (5%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Riverton’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Riverton’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($55,208, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Riverton could be anywhere from D to C.
In and out of Riverton on a workday
On a workday 2,319 residents head out to work, 2,404 work right here, and 3,343 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 (1.22 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 places Riverton commutes to
Where Riverton 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.
Inside Riverton’s 5,747 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riverton, 2013 → 2023: 6,138 → 5,747. 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 Riverton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Riverton’s commute takes about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riverton workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,796 commuters (the 4% 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.
How far Riverton’s workers travel
About 23% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Riverton
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,015 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). 5.6% of Riverton households have no vehicle (Wyoming 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Riverton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Riverton next to U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000: 2,206th of 2,507 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 671 | Jackson WY | 10,720 | $119K | 4.4% | 1.2% | 61% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,657 | Cody WY | 10,377 | $73K | 9.5% | 3.4% | 66% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,699 | Evanston WY | 11,705 | $77K | 8.6% | 3.9% | 63% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,204 | Johnson City NY | 14,580 | $56K | 19.6% | 11.4% | 15% | C− |
| 2,205 | Salem OH | 11,655 | $47K | 21.3% | 6.2% | 26% | C− |
| 2,206 | Riverton WY | 10,910 | $55K | 11.9% | 5.7% | 51% | C− |
| 2,207 | Potomac Park CA | 10,138 | $51K | 20.9% | 11.4% | 2% | C− |
| 2,208 | Murphysboro Township IL | 9,333 | $53K | 13.9% | 6.7% | 19% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Riverton, the top three, the last and three more from Wyoming.
How Riverton compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Arapahoe (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Riverton’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Riverton: questions
What is the median household income in Riverton?
$55,208 (±$4,086) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riverton?
11.9%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riverton?
15 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riverton work?
51% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lander (5%, 22 mi), Arapahoe (4%, 5 mi), Casper (3%, 105 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Riverton walkable?
Riverton is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Riverton without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riverton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riverton
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.