South Superior Union Hall · Photo: Val Brinkerhoff · Public domainSuperior has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
24 jobs are based in Superior for 50 working residents. Hardly any work in Superior itself; outside it, Rock Springs draws the most (22%, 18 miles). Home is the office for 25% of workers; Wyoming has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Superior for work, and who comes in
On a workday 50 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Superior on a workday afternoon, 14% 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 the trip to work from Superior ends
Where Superior clocks in
22% of workers
6% 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.
In Superior, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Superior, 2013 → 2023: 411 → 24. 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 Superior’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Superior takes about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Superior workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 51 commuters (the 25% 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.
Superior’s commute, mile by mile
About 48% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Superior workers work outside Wyoming. The job records count 12% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Superior: questions
What is the median household income in Superior?
$96,250 (±$42,390) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Superior?
4.0%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Superior?
36 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Superior work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rock Springs (22%, 18 mi), Wamsutter (6%, 51 mi), North Rock Springs (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Superior 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 Superior, from the people who make the trip.
More of Superior
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.