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Place dossier plate
SheetWY-PINEDALE-WY · Pinedale, WY 2,022 pop · income 56th pct · 3 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 Pinedale
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pinedale on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jamestown · lowest
25,602
Jamestown · lowest
25,602 median HH income
17.3% of the leader · rank #1
St. Augustine… · near
74,873
St. Augustine… · near
74,873 median HH income
50.5% of the leader · rank #2
Northfield · near
74,875
Northfield · near
74,875 median HH income
50.5% of the leader · rank #3
Pinedale · this city
74,886
Pinedale · this city
74,886 median HH income
50.5% of the leader · rank #4
Benson · near
74,886
Benson · near
74,886 median HH income
50.5% of the leader · rank #5
Orlinda · near
74,886
Orlinda · near
74,886 median HH income
50.5% of the leader · rank #6
Bartonville · highest
148,194
Bartonville · highest
148,194 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Pinedale on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 2,022.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Pinedale places in the 56th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
56th
percentile, household income
61st
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Pinedale, WY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 2,022 residents in Pinedale, a small town within Wyoming. Median household income here is $74,886 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.2%. Typical homes in Pinedale are valued around $279,300, and the median resident age is 47.7 years. About 39.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 16 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 167% from five years earlier. NOAA puts Pinedale's yearly average temperature at 37.5°F with 11.9 inches of precipitation per year and 76.1 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,044 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Wyoming run around $180, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 37.9 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Pinedale'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 climate and hazard context to within-city variation to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pinedale, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Pinedale growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -19 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 16 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.
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 37.5°F, with 11.9 inches of precipitation and 76.1 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.
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 Pinedale?
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.
Within Wyoming, the closest population matches are South Park (2,021 residents, $111,250 income); Greybull (2,061 residents, $62,941 income); Afton (1,982 residents, $56,806 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Chester, CA (2,022 residents); Bay City, OR (2,022 residents); Bartonville, TX (2,022 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Pinedale?
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 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.7×
Home value
$279,300
Household income
$74,886
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Pinedale?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
74.0%
Work from home
4.6%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 961 workers age 16+.
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 4 public schools within the city match. 39.9% 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.
Poverty estimate
9.2%
Bachelor's degree+
39.9%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 9.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.7 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Wyoming average
C+
City profile score · Pinedale, WY
60/100
4 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+
39.9%
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.
Household income C-
$74,886
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Pinedale profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 75/100 (B+) · 39.9%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.7 index
Household income: 54/100 (C-) · $74,886
Poverty rate: 43/100 (D) · 9.2%
How does Pinedale compare to other US cities?
Where Pinedale sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income56% higher than other cities
Home value61% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Pinedale 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 Pinedale near the bottom of Wyoming's cities
Among the 150 Wyoming cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pinedale ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pinedale only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#59 of 135
56th percentile in Wyoming
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 150
0th percentile in Wyoming
Median Home Value
#43 of 128
66th percentile in Wyoming
Poverty Rate
#48 of 149
67th percentile in Wyoming
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#24 of 150
84th 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
56th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Pinedale's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$279,30039th percentilemore affordable than 39% 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
Pinedale's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,824 of 15,516
More affordable than 37% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,795 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.7×, Pinedale sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,824 of 15,516 and #7,795 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$74,886Pinedale, WY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pinedale, 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 Pinedale, WY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)39.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,022
Median Income
$74,886
Median Home Value
$279,300
Median Age
47.7
Poverty Rate
9.2%
Labor force participation
61.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
39.9%
Climate
Avg Temperature
37.5°F
Annual Precipitation
11.9"
Annual Snowfall
76.1"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Pinedale's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,016 residents
2021
2,009 residents
2022
2,005 residents
2023
2,043 residents
2024
2,009 residents
2025
1,997 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
16
housing units authorized
Single-Family
16
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
6
6
0
$1.9M
2020
6
6
0
$1.5M
2021
4
4
0
$1.1M
2022
4
4
0
$1.1M
2023
5
5
0
$1.4M
2024
16
16
0
$6.7M
Permit volume increased 167% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.0%
Carpool
17.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.9%
Work from Home
4.6%
Based on 961 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 Pinedale. 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 Pinedale 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 Pinedale sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pinedale 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, 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.