Wyoming cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Wyoming, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Cheyenne city".

The largest place in Wyoming is Cheyenne city with 64,976 residents, and the 205 places on this page hold 456,123 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $20,865 to $208,333, and median home values range from $9,999 to $2,000,001 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Population in Wyoming is tightly clustered: the ten largest places carry 61% of the 456,123 residents counted across all 205. Two centres share the load — Cheyenne city and Casper city are within striking distance of each other — so there is no single reference point for the rest of the list. These are mostly very small areas — the median place counts 334 residents. Rankings at the bottom of this list are within each other's margin of error, so treat close positions as ties.

Buying is a little easier here than nationally: Wyoming's median place shows $227,900 in home value on $70,034 of income, a ratio of 3.3 against 3.9 across the country. Rent stays modest against earnings — $896 a month, roughly 15% of median household income over a year.

Incomes fan out sharply inside Wyoming. Strip the outliers and the top-decile place still earns 2.76× the bottom-decile one ($126,750 against $45,917); include them and Van Tassell town tops the list at $208,333 and East Thermopolis town anchors the bottom at $20,865. A single "Wyoming average" is averaging across two different economies.

Read the blanks carefully: 61 of 205 rows (30%) have at least one estimate the Census withheld because the local sample was too thin to publish reliably. In a state with 146 places under a thousand residents, that is expected, not an error on this page.

How many places does Wyoming have? 205 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. 71% of them have fewer than a thousand residents, so the list is far longer than the number of towns you would recognise by name.

Which Wyoming row should I compare mine against? Not the state median — it is pulled by the Wyoming core. Compare against places in the same population band, which for most of this list means the entries below the top ten.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.