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SheetWY-CASPER-WY · Casper, WY 58,754 pop · income 48th pct · 20 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 Casper
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Casper on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Laramie · lowest
52,414
Laramie · lowest
52,414 median HH income
22.7% of the leader · rank #1
Ebro · near
69,167
Ebro · near
69,167 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #2
Mount Auburn · near
69,167
Mount Auburn · near
69,167 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #3
Wallingford · near
69,167
Wallingford · near
69,167 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #4
Casper · this city
69,171
Casper · this city
69,171 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #5
Claiborne · near
69,173
Claiborne · near
69,173 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #6
Cupertino · highest
231,139
Cupertino · highest
231,139 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 Casper 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: 58,754.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Casper - the verdict
Nationally, Casper sits in the 48th percentile for household income and the 24th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
48th
percentile, household income
56th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
24th
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: Casper, WY
58,754 people live in Casper, Wyoming - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Casper households earn a median of $69,171 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.4%. Casper's housing stock carries a median value of $250,700, and the median resident age is 37.0 years. About 30.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 166 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 124% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2400.6 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 47.1°F with 15.9 inches of precipitation per year.
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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,044 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Wyoming's average monthly utility costs around $180 (state average). Workers in Casper report an average commute of 15.3 minutes, with 78.9% driving alone and 9.5% working from home. 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 Casper'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 work and mobility to population change to schools and households to within-city variation to housing and income to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Casper, 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.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Casper?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2400.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 5% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Casper?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.3 minutes.
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.
PlainCities matches 20 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Casper?
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.
Within Wyoming, the closest population matches are Cheyenne (64,976 residents, $77,176 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 Grand Forks, ND (58,882 residents); Cupertino, CA (58,886 residents); Burlington, NC (58,599 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.
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.
Population change
Is Casper growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -545 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 166 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
59,316
2025 estimate
58,771
Period change
-0.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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.
The NCES join finds 26 public schools within the city match. 30.0% 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.
Poverty estimate
8.4%
Bachelor's degree+
30.0%
Matched public schools
26
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Casper?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.6×
Home value
$250,700
Household income
$69,171
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 47.1°F, with 15.9 inches of precipitation. 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
37.9
Annual precipitation
15.9 in
Mean temperature
47.1°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Below median income · poverty 8.4% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.7 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Wyoming average
C-
City profile score · Casper, WY
52/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$69,171
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
289 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Casper profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 58/100 (C) · 30.0%
Household income: 48/100 (D) · $69,171
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.4%
Violent crime: 35/100 (F) · 289 /100k
Where Casper sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Casper'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 - Casper highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Casper, WY (this city): home $250,700, crime 2,401/100k
Grand Forks, ND : home $243,300, crime 2,641/100k
Cupertino, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 1,678/100k
Burlington, NC : home $188,700, crime 4,037/100k
Gilroy, CA : home $975,800, crime 2,625/100k
Cheyenne, WY : home $311,200, crime 3,317/100k
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 Casper compare to other US cities?
Casper measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income48% higher than other cities
Home value56% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety24% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Wyoming and the picture shifts: Casper ranks #22 of 24 Wyoming cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Casper 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 Casper near the bottom of Wyoming's cities
Among the 150 Wyoming cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Casper ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Casper only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#71 of 135
47th percentile in Wyoming
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 150
0th percentile in Wyoming
Median Home Value
#56 of 128
56th percentile in Wyoming
Poverty Rate
#53 of 149
64th percentile in Wyoming
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#44 of 150
71st 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
48th percentile nationally for median household income · 24th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Casper's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Casper'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 Casper's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$250,70044th percentilemore affordable than 44% 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
Casper's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,448 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#243 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.6×, Casper sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,448 of 15,516 and #243 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
$69,171Casper, WY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Casper, 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 Casper, WY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
58,754
Median Income
$69,171
Median Home Value
$250,700
Median Age
37.0
Poverty Rate
8.4%
Labor force participation
64.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2400.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
288.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2111.9
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
47.1°F
Annual Precipitation
15.9"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
26
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Casper's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
59,316 residents
2021
58,771 residents
2022
58,539 residents
2023
58,756 residents
2024
58,729 residents
2025
58,771 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
166
housing units authorized
Single-Family
62
detached homes
Multifamily
104
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
74
62
12
$18.5M
2020
117
60
57
$23.7M
2021
126
65
61
$25.4M
2022
126
52
74
$31.3M
2023
45
33
12
$18.7M
2024
166
62
104
$35.3M
Permit volume increased 124% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.3 minutes
Drive Alone
78.9%
Carpool
8.1%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
9.5%
Other
0.9%
Based on 29,503 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 Casper. 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 Casper 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 Casper sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Casper 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.