
Wyoming · Census place 79125
Upton, WY population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Upton, Wyoming (Upton, WY — Census place “Upton town”) is 845 residents, ranking #65 of 205 places in Wyoming. Median household income is $68,173, the median home is worth $166,300 and median gross rent runs — a month. Looking for the Upton Wyoming ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Upton, WY: 82730.
- Population
- 845Upton town residents
- Median household income
- $68,173Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $166,300Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- —Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 50.5 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 80.5%Owner-occupied households
Upton ZIP codes (Wyoming)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Upton.
The Upton WY ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Upton town
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
The median home costs 2.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 15.5% of residents and 80.5% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Upton town, WY in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Upton town is a very small community in Wyoming, with 845 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #65 of 205 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 50.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.
Households in Upton town earn a median of $68,173 a year, 13.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $69,912 median for the 54 Wyoming cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 15.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Upton town is valued at $166,300, 45.2% below the national figure and 34% below the $251,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 80.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.
A median age of 50.5 puts Upton town well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 845 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Upton town against its county rather than against national figures.
The Census withheld gross rent for Upton town because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in Wyoming.
- Mountain View town 1,017
- Moorcroft town 1,062
- Ranchester town 1,069
- Rafter J Ranch CDP 1,202
- Marbleton town 1,209
- Pine Bluffs town 1,260
- Basin town 1,304
- Fort Washakie CDP 1,345
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Upton town?
- Upton town has 845 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #65 of 205 in Wyoming.
- What is the median household income in Upton town?
- Median household income in Upton town is $68,173 a year, 13.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Upton town?
- Median gross rent is not published a month and the median home value is $166,300.
- Is Upton town affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Upton town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market.
- How current is this Upton town data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.