Afton draws more than half of Smoot’s working residents
Working residents average 20 minutes each way, next to 19 for Wyoming and 26 for the U.S. Working from home is the commute for 19% of workers, where Wyoming as a whole has 9%. Hardly any work in Smoot; the top destination outside it is Afton (54%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Smoot, and who commutes in
On a workday 155 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 570 people are in Smoot on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.03 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.
Where people from Smoot work
Where Smoot clocks in
54% of workers
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.
75% of the jobs in Smoot pay over $3,333 a month
4 jobs are based in Smoot.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Smoot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes each way for Smoot’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Smoot workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 285 commuters (the 19% 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 Smoot goes to work
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 Smoot: questions
What is the poverty rate in Smoot?
21.4%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Smoot?
20 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Smoot work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Smoot 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 Smoot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Smoot
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.