Work & commute · Mills

Work & commute in Mills, WY

Most working residents leave Mills for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Casper (50%), Hartrandt (3%) and Vista West (3%). Half commute less than 4 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

131 of 1,591 working residents

Typical commute

4 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,460 Mills residents head out of town to work, 131 work right here, and 2,163 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mills.

1,460live here, work elsewhere

131live and work here

2,163work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mills goes to work

Casper3.6 mi away

50%803

Mills (in town)right here

8%131

Hartrandt3.1 mi away

3%44

Vista West2.5 mi away

3%44

Cheyenne144.3 mi away

3%42

Evansville6.8 mi away

2%39

Mountain View2.3 mi away

2%37

Laramie113.6 mi away

1%22

Gillette108 mi away

1%22

Jackson225.1 mi away

1%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

25%394

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Mills commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

77%

20%

77%Under 10 mi

1%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mills is balanced between jobs and homes

1.44jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mills are

2,294 jobs are based in Mills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mills

2,294 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities38%

Services (health, schools, offices…)29%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month72%

Jobs Mills residents hold

1,591 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month52%

−22%

Jobs based in Mills, 2013 → 2023: 2,932 → 2,294. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.