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Place dossier plate
SheetWY-TORRINGTON-WY · Torrington, WY 6,174 pop · income 25th pct · 4 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 Torrington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Torrington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Aztec · lowest
42,699
Aztec · lowest
42,699 median HH income
34.3% of the leader · rank #1
Torrington · this city
53,393
Torrington · this city
53,393 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #2
O'Kean · near
53,393
O'Kean · near
53,393 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #3
Vidalia · near
53,393
Vidalia · near
53,393 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #4
Sutherland · near
53,393
Sutherland · near
53,393 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #5
Charlack · near
53,393
Charlack · near
53,393 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #6
Ranchettes · highest
124,426
Ranchettes · highest
124,426 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 Torrington 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: 6,174.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Torrington - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Torrington places in the 25th percentile for household income and the 44th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
25th
percentile, household income
41st
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
44th
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: Torrington, WY
Wyoming's Torrington is a small town, with 6,174 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $53,393 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 14.3%. Typical homes in Torrington are valued around $194,100, and the median resident age is 38.8 years. Educational attainment runs 20.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 50.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 0 residential building permits were authorized in Torrington (No Permits), per Census BPS data. Torrington reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1554.5 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). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 46.0°F with 14.8 inches of precipitation per year and 53.1 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Wyoming run below the national norm: the state registers 92.7 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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. Workers in Torrington report an average commute of 12.8 minutes, with 75.3% driving alone and 7.0% 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 Torrington'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 housing and income to population change to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to reported crime 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 Torrington, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Torrington?
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 14.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Torrington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +68 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Torrington?
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 Ranchettes (6,389 residents, $124,426 income); Douglas (6,400 residents, $79,839 income); Powell (6,466 residents, $65,077 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Willard, OH (6,174 residents); Bridgeport, TX (6,174 residents); Braidwood, IL (6,175 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.
What can 4 Census tracts reveal inside Torrington?
PlainCities matches 4 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.
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 Torrington?
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 46.0°F, with 14.8 inches of precipitation and 53.1 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
37.9
Annual precipitation
14.8 in
Mean temperature
46.0°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Torrington?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1554.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 32% 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.
Total reported rate
1554.5
Violent rate
496.8
Property rate
1057.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Torrington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 12.8 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.
Drive alone
75.3%
Work from home
7.0%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,530 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Torrington?
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 6 public schools within the city match. 20.3% 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.
Poverty estimate
14.3%
Bachelor's degree+
20.3%
Matched public schools
6
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 F
20.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$53,393
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
497 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Torrington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 35/100 (F) · 20.3%
Household income: 25/100 (F) · $53,393
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.3%
Violent crime: 16/100 (F) · 497 /100k
Where Torrington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Torrington'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 - Torrington highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Torrington, WY (this city): home $194,100, crime 1,555/100k
Bridgeport, TX : home $241,100, crime 967/100k
Braidwood, IL : home $205,900, crime 454/100k
Ishpeming, MI : home $109,200, crime 1,082/100k
Slinger, WI : home $337,700, crime 510/100k
Aztec, NM : home $164,700, crime 1,915/100k
Douglas, WY : home $251,500, crime 973/100k
Powell, WY : home $265,400, crime 1,459/100k
Worland, WY : home $176,300, crime 772/100k
How does Torrington compare to other US cities?
Torrington measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income25% higher than other cities
Home value41% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety44% 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, Torrington ranks #19 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 Torrington 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 Torrington near the bottom of Wyoming's cities
Among the 150 Wyoming cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Torrington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Torrington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#115 of 135
15th percentile in Wyoming
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 150
0th percentile in Wyoming
Median Home Value
#83 of 128
35th percentile in Wyoming
Poverty Rate
#26 of 149
82nd percentile in Wyoming
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#79 of 150
47th 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
25th percentile nationally for median household income · 44th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Torrington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Torrington'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 Torrington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$194,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 59% 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
Torrington'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
#9,492 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,589 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.6×, Torrington sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,492 of 15,516 and #7,589 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
$53,393Torrington, WY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Torrington, 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 Torrington, WY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,174
Median Income
$53,393
Median Home Value
$194,100
Median Age
38.8
Poverty Rate
14.3%
Labor force participation
50.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1554.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
496.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1057.7
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
46.0°F
Annual Precipitation
14.8"
Annual Snowfall
53.1"
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Torrington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,137 residents
2021
6,152 residents
2022
6,216 residents
2023
6,232 residents
2024
6,209 residents
2025
6,205 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
2
2
0
$1.0M
2022
2
2
0
$1.6M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
12.8 minutes
Drive Alone
75.3%
Carpool
10.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.9%
Work from Home
7.0%
Other
4.2%
Based on 2,530 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 Torrington. 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 Torrington 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 Torrington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Torrington 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.