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SheetWY-SHERIDAN-WY · Sheridan, WY 19,035 pop · income 38th 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 Sheridan
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sheridan on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Riverton · lowest
56,280
Riverton · lowest
56,280 median HH income
50.0% of the leader · rank #1
Belgium · near
61,591
Belgium · near
61,591 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #2
Poultney · near
61,597
Poultney · near
61,597 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #3
Sheridan · this city
61,598
Sheridan · this city
61,598 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #4
Hudson · near
61,600
Hudson · near
61,600 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #5
Fortuna · near
61,603
Fortuna · near
61,603 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #6
Jackson · highest
112,609
Jackson · highest
112,609 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 Sheridan 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: 19,035.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sheridan - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Sheridan lands in the 38th percentile for household income and the 59th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
38th
percentile, household income
64th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
59th
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: Sheridan, WY
Wyoming's Sheridan is a small town, with 19,035 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Sheridan households earn a median of $61,598 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.2%. Home values in Sheridan run a median of $295,300, and the median resident age is 39.7 years. Educational attainment runs 34.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 61.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 214 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 185% from five years earlier. Sheridan reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1125.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,044 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Wyoming's average monthly utility costs around $180 (state average). Commute times here average 11.7 minutes, with 83.5% driving alone and 4.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Sheridan'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 within-city variation to housing and income to schools and households to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sheridan, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, 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 Sheridan?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1125.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 51% lower 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 Sheridan?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 11.7 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.
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 Sheridan?
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 Rock Springs (23,229 residents, $73,307 income); Evanston (11,803 residents, $76,569 income); Green River (11,679 residents, $85,399 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Badger, AK (19,033 residents); Sylvania, OH (19,038 residents); East Riverdale, MD (19,043 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 Sheridan?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.8×
Home value
$295,300
Household income
$61,598
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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 10 public schools within the city match. 34.8% 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
6.2%
Bachelor's degree+
34.8%
Matched public schools
10
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Sheridan growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,229 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 214 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
18,786
2025 estimate
20,015
Period change
+6.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 6.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.7 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Wyoming average
C
City profile score · Sheridan, WY
58/100
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 B-
34.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C+
136 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C
6.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$61,598
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Sheridan profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.8%
Violent crime: 62/100 (C+) · 136 /100k
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.2%
Household income: 37/100 (F) · $61,598
Where Sheridan sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sheridan'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 - Sheridan highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Sheridan, WY (this city): home $295,300, crime 1,126/100k
Sylvania, OH : home $233,700, crime 804/100k
Gautier, MS : home $162,700, crime 2,171/100k
Norwood, OH : home $228,300, crime 3,395/100k
Rock Springs, WY : home $245,600, crime 1,405/100k
Evanston, WY : home $236,400, crime 2,022/100k
Green River, WY : home $255,600, crime 851/100k
Riverton, WY : home $204,900, crime 4,689/100k
Jackson, WY : home $1,228,700, crime 793/100k
Cody, WY : home $357,300, crime 932/100k
How does Sheridan compare to other US cities?
Where Sheridan sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income38% higher than other cities
Home value64% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety59% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Wyoming alone, Sheridan ranks #13 of 24 Wyoming cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Sheridan 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 Sheridan near the bottom of Wyoming's cities
Among the 150 Wyoming cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sheridan ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sheridan only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#96 of 135
29th percentile in Wyoming
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 150
0th percentile in Wyoming
Median Home Value
#39 of 128
70th percentile in Wyoming
Poverty Rate
#69 of 149
52nd percentile in Wyoming
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#33 of 150
78th 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
38th percentile nationally for median household income · 59th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sheridan's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sheridan'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 Sheridan's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$295,30036th percentilemore affordable than 36% 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
Sheridan's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,546 of 15,516
More affordable than 19% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,513 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.8×, Sheridan sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,546 of 15,516 and #2,513 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$61,598Sheridan, WY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sheridan, 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 Sheridan, WY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,035
Median Income
$61,598
Median Home Value
$295,300
Median Age
39.7
Poverty Rate
6.2%
Labor force participation
61.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1125.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
136.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
989.4
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.
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sheridan's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
18,786 residents
2021
19,058 residents
2022
19,231 residents
2023
19,623 residents
2024
19,794 residents
2025
20,015 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
214
housing units authorized
Single-Family
93
detached homes
Multifamily
121
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
75
43
32
$14.1M
2020
68
47
21
$13.7M
2021
187
121
66
$38.0M
2022
232
129
103
$46.6M
2023
122
61
61
$27.5M
2024
214
93
121
$41.8M
Permit volume increased 185% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
11.7 minutes
Drive Alone
83.5%
Carpool
7.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
4.0%
Work from Home
4.5%
Other
0.6%
Based on 9,195 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 Sheridan. 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 Sheridan 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 Sheridan sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sheridan 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, 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.