Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Work, pay and getting to work in Upton
A typical one-way commute lasts 34 minutes; Wyoming averages 19, the U.S. 26. 0% of workers work from home; Wyoming has 9%. About one in ten work in Upton itself; outside it, Newcastle draws the most (30%, 28 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Upton
Upton and Newcastle trade workers both ways
Newcastle is the top workplace for Upton residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in Upton come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Upton workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 19 across Wyoming. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 115 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Upton makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in Upton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Upton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 293 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Upton’s working residents head each day
Where Upton clocks in
30% of workers
2% 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.
Each way, about 34 minutes from Upton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Upton workers work from home, vs 9% across Wyoming. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 460 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.
Goods jobs make up 38% of work in Upton
326 jobs are based in Upton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Upton, 2014 → 2024: 248 → 326. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Upton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Upton
On a workday 259 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 292 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 (1.11 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Half of Upton commutes less than 30 miles
About 28% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Upton: questions
What is the median household income in Upton?
$58,182 (±$47,153) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,176 across Wyoming and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Upton?
16.6%, against 10.5% across Wyoming and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Upton?
34 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Wyoming and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Upton work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newcastle (30%, 28 mi), Gillette (5%, 44 mi), Cheyenne (2%, 206 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Upton without a car?
2% 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 Upton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Upton
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.