Work & commute · Ranchettes

Work & commute in Ranchettes, WY

Most working residents leave Ranchettes for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Cheyenne (67%), Laramie (3%) and Fox Farm-College (3%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

60 of 2,850 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,790 Ranchettes residents head out of town to work, 60 work right here, and 549 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ranchettes.

2,790live here, work elsewhere

60live and work here

549work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ranchettes goes to work

Cheyenne6.4 mi away

67%1,903

Laramie43.8 mi away

3%89

Fox Farm-College7.5 mi away

3%87

Ranchettes (in town)right here

2%60

Fort Collins, CO48.8 mi away

2%43

Casper137.4 mi away

1%40

Warren AFB6.8 mi away

1%28

Gillette214.2 mi away

1%25

Loveland, CO57.5 mi away

1%15

Greeley, CO55.6 mi away

0%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

19%546

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

How far

How far Ranchettes commutes

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

79%

13%

79%Under 10 mi

2%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ranchettes is a commuter town

0.21jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.21 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Ranchettes are

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

Jobs based in Ranchettes

609 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month62%

Jobs Ranchettes residents hold

2,850 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+25%

Jobs based in Ranchettes, 2013 → 2023: 487 → 609. 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.