The 10 Richest Cities in Wyoming for 2024
In this article, we'll look at the top 10 richest cities in Wyoming and explore some of the demographic statistics of each to see if we can find out why they are the richest.
Before we get started, let's talk about how we determine "the richest cities" by explaining how we calculate it.
We use the mean household income for each city, which can be found on the latest American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates. The ACS is an ongoing survey conducted by the US Census Bureau and, because it's updated yearly, is more up-to-date that the Decennial Survey.
The latest year we have ACS data for is 2022.
Using the mean (or average) household income, we only really have two criteria to determine the richest cities:
- The city must have a population of at least 500 people.
- The margin of error provided by the Census Bureau for the city must be less than 50% of the mean household income estimate.
Richest Cities in Wyoming
If you're in a rush and just want to see the top 10 cities in Wyoming, here they are, sorted by highest average household income.
The list is long, so you might have to scroll the table to see all of the cities. You can click the links in the table to view more demographic statistics about the city.
Demographic Statistics for the 10 Richest Cities in Wyoming
Now that we've seen the top 10 cities in Wyoming, let's take a look at some of the demographic statistics for each city.
We'll focus on the top 10 richest cities in Wyoming to see if there any similarities or differences between them.
Household Income by Age
In the table below, we can compare the household income by age for each of the cities.
Note than any fields showing as $0 are because the data was not available from the latest ACS.
We can see from the data above that the most common age bracket for the richest cities in Wyoming is 25 to 44, with 50.00% of the top earners falling into this age bracket.
The list below shows all of the top age brackets for the richest cities in Wyoming.
- 50.00% of the richest cities in Wyoming were aged 25 to 44
- 50.00% of the richest cities in Wyoming were aged 45 to 64
Race and Ethnicity
We can also look at the race and ethnicity for the richest cities in Wyoming. To do that, we created averages for each race reported for the city by the ACS survey.
The chart below shows the most common races living in the richest cities in Wyoming:
This shows that the most common race across the richest cities in Wyoming is "Black/African American".
Education Levels
Another interesting demographic to look at would be the education levels of the people living in the richest cities in Wyoming.
Just like we did with the race and ethnicity numbers, we can create averages for each of the education levels the Census Bureau tracks for each city, by summing them and dividing by the number of cities we're comparing.
The chart below shows the most common education level of people living in the richest cities in Wyoming:
The data shows that 42.06% of people living in the richest cities in Wyoming have a bachelor's degree or higher.
Conclusion
Hopefully, this article has given you some interesting insights into why the richest cities in Wyoming are so wealthy based on the common demographics between them.
In the future, we will try to add more data to this article and pull out more interesting insights from the information.