Casper

City Commute Profile

Casper, WY

Where Casper’s 29,828 resident workers go each day — 60.2% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Mills.

WyomingLODES 2023 data
83
Commute Score

83 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Casper at a glance
Employed Residents
29,828
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
3.5mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
60.2%
Share working within the area
Work from home
10.5%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Mills
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Casper proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Casper commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Casper

29,828 commutes, one dot at a time

Casper

Where 29,828 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Casper, by worker count.

1Casper0.0 mi17,951
2Mills3.0 mi1,312
3Evansville3.5 mi1,028
4Hartrandt4.0 mi787
5Cheyenne140.6 mi692
6Vista West6.2 mi583
7Laramie111.8 mi415
8Mountain View5.3 mi356

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Casper.

1Casper0.0 mi17,951
2Mills3.0 mi855
3Bar Nunn5.9 mi731
4Evansville3.5 mi708
5Gillette108.0 mi489
6Cheyenne140.6 mi458
7Vista West6.2 mi278
8Sheridan139.1 mi248

Top industries

The sectors that employ Casper’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance21.7%
RTRetail Trade15.4%
EDEducational Services12.5%
AFAccommodation and Food Services11.7%
PAPublic Administration5.2%
COConstruction4.2%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services4.0%
OSOther Services (except Public Administration)3.8%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services3.8%

Casper city profile

Who lives in Casper — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
58,839
Median age
37.3yrs
Median household income
$70,218
Median home value
$260,400
Median gross rent
$1,009/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
30.5%
Poverty rate
10.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Casper

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

9 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps82%
5 Gbps82%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Casper

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).