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SheetWY-CHEYENNE-WY · Cheyenne, WY 64,976 pop · income 59th pct · 27 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Cheyenne
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cheyenne on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Muncie · lowest
43,395
Muncie · lowest
43,395 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #1
Citrus Heights · near
77,167
Citrus Heights · near
77,167 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #2
Mount Vernon · near
77,171
Mount Vernon · near
77,171 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #3
Middletown · near
77,174
Middletown · near
77,174 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #4
Cheyenne · this city
77,176
Cheyenne · this city
77,176 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #5
Woodside · near
77,176
Woodside · near
77,176 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #6
Pflugerville · highest
112,656
Pflugerville · highest
112,656 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Cheyenne on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 64,976.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Cheyenne - the verdict
Cheyenne ranks in the 59th percentile for household income and the 12th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
59th
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
12th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Cheyenne, WY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 64,976 residents in Cheyenne, a small city within Wyoming. The typical household in Cheyenne brings in $77,176 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.4%. Typical homes in Cheyenne are valued around $311,200, and the median resident age is 38.9 years. Educational attainment runs 32.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 323 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 53% from five years earlier. Cheyenne's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 3317.3 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 46.9°F with 15.4 inches of precipitation per year and 62.9 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Wyoming run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Wyoming at 92.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,044 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $180 across Wyoming, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 37.9 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Cheyenne's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from reported crime to schools and households to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to housing and income to population change to within-city variation to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cheyenne, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Cheyenne?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3317.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 45% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
The NCES join finds 38 public schools within the city match. 32.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 27 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cheyenne?
Within Wyoming, the closest population matches are Casper (58,754 residents, $69,171 income); Gillette (33,278 residents, $90,699 income); Laramie (31,848 residents, $52,414 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Port Charlotte, FL (64,971 residents); Ocala, FL (64,903 residents); Kenner, LA (65,113 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Cheyenne?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
7.6%
Drive alone
81.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 34,123 workers age 16+.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 46.9°F, with 15.4 inches of precipitation and 62.9 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Wyoming is 37.9 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
46.9°F
Annual precipitation
15.4 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
37.9
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Cheyenne?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$77,176
Home value
$311,200
Value / income
4.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Cheyenne growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,029 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 323 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+1.6%
2025 estimate
66,507
2020 estimate
65,478
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 5.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.7 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Wyoming average
C
City profile score · Cheyenne, WY
57/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living B+
92.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate C+
5.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$77,176
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
329 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cheyenne profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.7 index
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 32.9%
Household income: 57/100 (C) · $77,176
Violent crime: 29/100 (F) · 329 /100k
Where Cheyenne sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Cheyenne's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Cheyenne highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Cheyenne, WY (this city): home $311,200, crime 3,317/100k
Ocala, FL : home $219,900, crime 3,549/100k
Kenner, LA : home $241,800, crime 3,178/100k
Pflugerville, TX : home $354,900, crime 1,809/100k
Lorain, OH : home $123,500, crime 2,132/100k
Muncie, IN : home $92,000, crime 2,860/100k
Casper, WY : home $250,700, crime 2,401/100k
Gillette, WY : home $257,200, crime 1,716/100k
Laramie, WY : home $302,200, crime 1,293/100k
Rock Springs, WY : home $245,600, crime 1,405/100k
Sheridan, WY : home $295,300, crime 1,126/100k
Evanston, WY : home $236,400, crime 2,022/100k
How does Cheyenne compare to other US cities?
Here's how Cheyenne stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income59% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety12% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Wyoming, Cheyenne ranks #23 of 24 Wyoming cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Cheyenne against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Wyoming only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Wyoming-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Cheyenne near the bottom of Wyoming's cities
Among the 150 Wyoming cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cheyenne ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cheyenne only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#55 of 135
59th percentile in Wyoming
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 150
0th percentile in Wyoming
Median Home Value
#33 of 128
73rd percentile in Wyoming
Poverty Rate
#76 of 149
48th percentile in Wyoming
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#36 of 150
75th percentile in Wyoming
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Wyoming only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
59th percentile nationally for median household income · 12th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Cheyenne's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Cheyenne's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Cheyenne's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$311,20033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Cheyenne's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,802 of 15,516
More affordable than 30% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#309 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.0×, Cheyenne sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,802 of 15,516 and #309 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$77,176Cheyenne, WY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cheyenne, WY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Cheyenne, WY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
64,976
Median Income
$77,176
Median Home Value
$311,200
Median Age
38.9
Poverty Rate
5.4%
Labor force participation
62.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3317.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
328.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2988.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
46.9°F
Annual Precipitation
15.4"
Annual Snowfall
62.9"
Schools
Total Schools
38
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cheyenne's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
65,478 residents
2021
65,335 residents
2022
64,826 residents
2023
65,410 residents
2024
65,773 residents
2025
66,507 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
323
housing units authorized
Single-Family
158
detached homes
Multifamily
165
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
211
165
46
$40.0M
2020
280
188
92
$63.3M
2021
328
232
96
$63.4M
2022
1,000
212
788
$109.1M
2023
189
67
122
$33.8M
2024
323
158
165
$58.3M
Permit volume increased 53% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.4%
Carpool
9.0%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
7.6%
Other
0.9%
Based on 34,123 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Wyoming statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $180
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Wyoming at $180 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Wyoming statewide averages, not a meter reading for Cheyenne. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Wyoming's BEA cost-of-living index is 92.7 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Cheyenne is $1,044/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Wyoming statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 37.9 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Wyoming statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Cheyenne sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cheyenne compares to similar-size Wyoming cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.