ZIP code 82009

ZIP 82009 is a small city in Laramie County, Wyoming, with 35,355 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #2 of 176 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 45.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in ZIP 82009 earn a median of $102,727 a year, 30.8% above the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 5.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 82009 is valued at $415,000, 36.8% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,106 a month, 21.3% below the national figure, or roughly $13,272 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 83.2% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP 82009 is tabulated inside Laramie County, Wyoming, one of 12 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 176 across Wyoming. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 82009 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 82009 reports a median household income of $102,727, 16% above the $88,438 county median, and 45% above the $70,916 typical WY ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $415,000, 31% above the county figure and 63% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,106 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 82009 carries 6% at the register, assembled from the Cheyenne jurisdiction stack: the Wyoming state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 82009 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 82009 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.