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Place dossier plate
SheetWY-CODY-WY · Cody, WY 10,121 pop · income 48th pct · 7 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 Cody
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cody on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cordele · lowest
31,564
Cordele · lowest
31,564 median HH income
27.9% of the leader · rank #1
Cody · this city
68,676
Cody · this city
68,676 median HH income
60.8% of the leader · rank #2
Beale AFB · near
68,676
Beale AFB · near
68,676 median HH income
60.8% of the leader · rank #3
Mount Ayr · near
68,676
Mount Ayr · near
68,676 median HH income
60.8% of the leader · rank #4
La Cienega · near
68,676
La Cienega · near
68,676 median HH income
60.8% of the leader · rank #5
Landover · near
68,679
Landover · near
68,679 median HH income
60.8% of the leader · rank #6
Budd Lake · highest
113,036
Budd Lake · highest
113,036 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 Cody 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: 10,121.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Cody - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Cody lands in the 48th percentile for household income and the 67th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
48th
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
67th
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: Cody, WY
10,121 people live in Cody, Wyoming - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Cody households earn a median of $68,676 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.0%. Typical homes in Cody are valued around $357,300, and the median resident age is 41.7 years. 40.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 55 residential building permits were authorized in Cody (Building Boom), up 67% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Cody reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 931.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, below 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 46.8°F with 11.5 inches of precipitation per year and 45.0 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Wyoming run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Wyoming scores 92.7 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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 Cody report an average commute of 9.3 minutes, with 82.0% driving alone and 8.4% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 37.9 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Cody'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 population change to comparison shortlist to reported crime to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to within-city variation to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cody, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Cody 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 +254 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 55 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cody?
Within Wyoming, the closest population matches are Jackson (10,746 residents, $112,609 income); Riverton (10,803 residents, $56,280 income); Green River (11,679 residents, $85,399 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are San Elizario, TX (10,123 residents); Lancaster, NY (10,127 residents); Rathdrum, ID (10,133 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.
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 931.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 59% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Cody?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 46.8°F, with 11.5 inches of precipitation and 45.0 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
46.8°F
Annual precipitation
11.5 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.
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 82.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 9.3 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
8.4%
Drive alone
82.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,077 workers age 16+.
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 40.3% 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.
Matched public schools
8
Bachelor's degree+
40.3%
Poverty estimate
8.0%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Cody?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.0%, 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
$68,676
Home value
$357,300
Value / income
5.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 8.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.7 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Wyoming average
C
City profile score · Cody, WY
59/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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.
Violent crime C
165 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
8.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$68,676
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cody profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 75/100 (B+) · 40.3%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.7 index
Violent crime: 55/100 (C) · 165 /100k
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 8.0%
Household income: 47/100 (D) · $68,676
Where Cody sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Cody'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 - Cody highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Cody, WY (this city): home $357,300, crime 932/100k
Rathdrum, ID : home $381,800, crime 914/100k
Cordele, GA : home $110,700, crime 5,327/100k
Paris, KY : home $182,100, crime 935/100k
Jackson, WY : home $1,228,700, crime 793/100k
Riverton, WY : home $204,900, crime 4,689/100k
Green River, WY : home $255,600, crime 851/100k
Evanston, WY : home $236,400, crime 2,022/100k
How does Cody compare to other US cities?
Here's how Cody stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income48% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety67% 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: Cody ranks #9 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 Cody 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 Cody near the bottom of Wyoming's cities
Among the 150 Wyoming cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cody ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cody only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#73 of 135
46th percentile in Wyoming
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 150
0th percentile in Wyoming
Median Home Value
#26 of 128
80th percentile in Wyoming
Poverty Rate
#57 of 149
61st percentile in Wyoming
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#23 of 150
85th 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 · 67th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Cody's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Cody'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 Cody's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$357,30027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Cody's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,184 of 15,516
More affordable than 15% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,708 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.2×, Cody sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,184 of 15,516 and #2,708 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$68,676Cody, WY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cody, 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 Cody, WY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,121
Median Income
$68,676
Median Home Value
$357,300
Median Age
41.7
Poverty Rate
8.0%
Labor force participation
64.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
931.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
165.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
766.5
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
46.8°F
Annual Precipitation
11.5"
Annual Snowfall
45.0"
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cody's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,123 residents
2021
10,236 residents
2022
10,296 residents
2023
10,335 residents
2024
10,383 residents
2025
10,377 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
55
housing units authorized
Single-Family
37
detached homes
Multifamily
18
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
33
29
4
$6.8M
2020
43
41
2
$10.6M
2021
66
46
20
$17.5M
2022
53
33
20
$16.7M
2023
50
40
10
$15.7M
2024
55
37
18
$12.2M
Permit volume increased 67% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
9.3 minutes
Drive Alone
82.0%
Carpool
6.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
8.4%
Based on 5,077 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 Cody. 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 Cody 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 Cody sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cody 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.