ZIP code 82072

ZIP 82072 is a mid-size town in Albany County, Wyoming, with 16,438 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #14 of 176 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 26.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 82072 earn a median of $52,717 a year, 32.9% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 22.1% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 82072 is valued at $313,300, 3.3% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $901 a month, 35.9% below the national figure, or roughly $10,812 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 45% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 26.8 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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 82072 is tabulated inside Albany County, Wyoming, one of 9 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 176 across Wyoming. This is a mid-sized ZIP that covers a large share of its county's addresses. 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 82072 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 82072 reports a median household income of $52,717, 19% below the $65,399 county median, and 26% below the $70,916 typical WY ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $313,300, 22% below the county figure and 23% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $901 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Wyoming charges 4% statewide, and local governments overlapping 82072 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

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 82072 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.