Wyoming
Wyoming: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 587,618 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Wyoming at a glance
Rolled up from the 11 regions inside Wyoming on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Who leads Wyoming, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-10 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
- Population
- 588,753 persons (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 52,491.2 USD millions (nominal, annual) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 3 % (seasonally adjusted, BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 81,030 USD (current dollars, Census CPS ASEC) (2025) ↗
- Personal income per person
- 89,806 USD (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 57,100 USD per person with a credit score (NY Fed Center for Microeconomic Data, via USAFacts) (2025) ↗
Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
Worth knowing
- 2026-11Republican Eric Barlow won the Nov 3, 2026 governor race with 68.6% (128,480 votes) over Rebecca Bextel (Constitution, 16.8%) and Kenneth Casner (Democratic, 14.7%), at 95% of votes counted; he succeeds term-limited Mark Gordon. ↗
- 2026-11Wyoming has no lieutenant governor; the Secretary of State is first in line to succeed the governor (Wyoming Constitution Art. IV, Sec. 6). ↗
- 2026-11Wyoming levies no individual or corporate income tax; the state sales tax is 4%, and severance taxes on mineral production fund the Permanent Mineral Trust Fund. ↗
- 2025-08Wyoming launched the first state-issued stablecoin in August 2025, after a legislative commission was set up in 2023. ↗
- 2025Wyoming residents with a credit score owed $57,100 on average in 2025, about $6,100 less than the US average. ↗
- 2019Wyoming is the least populous US state; coal output was 277 million short tons in 2019, down from a 2008 peak of 514 million. ↗
Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
- Spanish25,902 · 4.5%
- German or other West Germanic languages2,046 · 0.4%
- Other and unspecified languages1,923 · 0.3%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages1,443 · 0.2%
- Other Indo-European languages1,344 · 0.2%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages1,267 · 0.2%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun1,171 · 0.2%
Largest places in Wyoming
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Cheyenne, Wyoming full65,132
- 2.Casper, Wyoming full58,754
- 3.Gillette, Wyoming full33,278
- 4.Laramie, Wyoming full31,407
- 5.Rock Springs, Wyoming full23,526
- 6.Sheridan, Wyoming full19,035
- 7.Riverton, Wyoming full10,682
- 8.Cody, Wyoming full10,028
- 9.Worland, Wyoming full4,773
Inside Wyoming
11 regions have Wyoming as their parent.
Companies based in Wyoming
8 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in Wyoming. Search them by name or industry.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Wyoming are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.