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Most affordable towns in Wyoming, 2026

Douglas is the most affordable ranked town in Wyoming. Rent, the regional price level, taxes, and electricity are 22.5% each. Gasoline is 10%. A lower score is more affordable.

Summary

17
Towns ranked in Wyoming.
Douglas
Number 1 in Wyoming. Rent is 12.1% of income. National rank 29.
16.1%
Median rent share among ranked towns in Wyoming.
7
Ranked Wyoming towns in the national top 100.
Jackson
Least affordable ranked town in Wyoming. Rent is 21.2% of income. National rank 1645.

Gasoline

$4.575

per gallon. EIA does not publish a Wyoming price. This is the Rocky Mountain (PADD 4) price for the week of October 12, 2026. At 12,000 miles a year and 25 mpg, that is $2,196.00 a year for every ranked town in Wyoming.

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Top 25

Wyoming has 17 ranked towns, so this is the full list.

  1. #1 in Wyoming · National #29

    Douglas

    Rent share 12.1% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.161

    Median rent is $841 a month and median income is $83,147, so rent is 12.1% of income, under the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is rent share and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  2. #2 in Wyoming · National #36

    Green River

    Rent share 13.0% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.164

    Median rent is $921 a month and median income is $84,747, so rent is 13.0% of income, under the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is tax burden and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  3. #3 in Wyoming · National #44

    Evanston

    Rent share 12.6% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.167

    Median rent is $805 a month and median income is $76,516, so rent is 12.6% of income, under the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is rent share and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  4. #4 in Wyoming · National #50

    Rawlins

    Rent share 13.7% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.169

    Median rent is $741 a month and median income is $64,773, so rent is 13.7% of income, under the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is tax burden and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  5. #5 in Wyoming · National #65

    Gillette

    Rent share 14.4% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.174

    Median rent is $976 a month and median income is $81,316, so rent is 14.4% of income, under the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is tax burden and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  6. #6 in Wyoming · National #94

    Lander

    Rent share 14.4% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.185

    Median rent is $896 a month and median income is $74,813, so rent is 14.4% of income, under the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is rent share and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  7. #7 in Wyoming · National #96

    Powell

    Rent share 14.4% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.186

    Median rent is $764 a month and median income is $63,523, so rent is 14.4% of income, under the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is rent share and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  8. #8 in Wyoming · National #128

    Rock Springs

    Rent share 16.1% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.196

    Median rent is $928 a month and median income is $69,168, so rent is 16.1% of income, even with the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is tax burden and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  9. #9 in Wyoming · National #199

    Ranchettes

    Rent share 8.2% · Price level 96.5 · Score 0.213

    Median rent is $831 a month and median income is $121,445, so rent is 8.2% of income, under the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Cheyenne, WY metro price level is 96.5 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is rent share and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  10. #10 in Wyoming · National #273

    Casper

    Rent share 17.2% · Price level 93.8 · Score 0.228

    Median rent is $1,009 a month and median income is $70,218, so rent is 17.2% of income, over the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Casper, WY metro price level is 93.8 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is tax burden and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  11. #11 in Wyoming · National #294

    Cody

    Rent share 17.4% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.232

    Median rent is $1,051 a month and median income is $72,570, so rent is 17.4% of income, over the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is electricity price and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  12. #12 in Wyoming · National #389

    Sheridan

    Rent share 17.9% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.243

    Median rent is $936 a month and median income is $62,867, so rent is 17.9% of income, over the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is electricity price and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  13. #13 in Wyoming · National #493

    Cheyenne

    Rent share 17.0% · Price level 96.5 · Score 0.256

    Median rent is $1,118 a month and median income is $78,839, so rent is 17.0% of income, over the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Cheyenne, WY metro price level is 96.5 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is tax burden and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  14. #14 in Wyoming · National #578

    Riverton

    Rent share 20.0% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.267

    Median rent is $921 a month and median income is $55,208, so rent is 20.0% of income, over the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is tax burden and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  15. #15 in Wyoming · National #766

    Laramie

    Rent share 20.0% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.285

    Median rent is $925 a month and median income is $55,613, so rent is 20.0% of income, over the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is electricity price and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  16. #16 in Wyoming · National #1142

    Torrington

    Rent share 22.6% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.313

    Median rent is $901 a month and median income is $47,902, so rent is 22.6% of income, over the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is tax burden and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

  17. #17 in Wyoming · National #1645

    Jackson

    Rent share 21.2% · Price level 92.7 · Score 0.345

    Median rent is $2,100 a month and median income is $118,991, so rent is 21.2% of income, over the 16.1% median for ranked towns in Wyoming. The Wyoming state price level is 92.7 (U.S. = 100). Residential electricity is 14.36 cents per kWh. Gasoline is $4.575 a gallon (Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)). Among ranked U.S. towns, its lightest mark is electricity price and its heaviest mark is gasoline price.

Least affordable 10

Every ranked town in Wyoming is already in the list above.

The formula

A lower score is more affordable. Rent share, the regional price level, taxes, and electricity each count 22.5%. Gasoline counts 10%. Those weights are our choice. Gasoline stays at 10% because the miles figure is one national standard, not a measured town commute. This is not a government standard.

A percentile is the share of ranked towns with a strictly lower number, divided by the number of ranked towns minus one. The lowest number scores 0. Tied numbers share a percentile.

  1. Rent share = (median monthly rent × 12) / median household income. Both figures are the Census 2020–2024 medians for that place.
  2. RPP-adjusted cost is the BEA 2024 all-items regional price parity. A basket priced at 100 for the U.S. average costs this many dollars in the town's area. We use the metro index when the county is in a metro BEA publishes. Otherwise we use the state index and say so. This index includes housing, so housing also shows up in the rent share.
  3. Tax burden is the average of three percentiles. Income-tax share is state income tax plus the stored 2023 local AGI add-on, divided by the town's median household income, on a joint return. Property share is the state's median effective property-tax rate times the town's median home value, divided by income. Sales rate is the combined state and average local sales-tax rate. We do not turn the sales rate into dollars, because that would require a shopping basket we do not have.
  4. Electricity is the state residential price in cents per kilowatt-hour. Every town in a state shares it. We do not guess how many kilowatt-hours a home uses.
  5. Gasoline is the EIA retail price for all grades and all formulations, in dollars per gallon. Where EIA publishes a state series, we use that state. Every other state uses the PADD region EIA assigns to it. Census does not publish commuting miles for these towns, so annual gas spend is 12,000 miles a year divided by 25 miles per gallon, times the price. That is 480 gallons, the same for every town. Those miles are our standard, not an ACS figure and not a government mileage rule. Because the gallons do not change, the gas percentile is the percentile of the price.

    Weekly prices are for the week of October 12, 2026, from the EIA workbook released October 14, 2026. File: https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/xls/pswrgvwall.xls. Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, and Oregon use West Coast (PADD 5) Except California. That series is not in the weekly workbook, so those five use the monthly price dated September 15, 2026. File: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_gnd_a_epm0_pte_dpgal_m.htm.

    • State series, week of October 12, 2026: California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Texas, Washington.
    • Central Atlantic (PADD 1B), week of October 12, 2026: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
    • Gulf Coast (PADD 3), week of October 12, 2026: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico.
    • Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C), week of October 12, 2026: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia.
    • Midwest (PADD 2), week of October 12, 2026: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
    • New England (PADD 1A), week of October 12, 2026: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.
    • Rocky Mountain (PADD 4), week of October 12, 2026: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming.
    • West Coast (PADD 5) Except California, September 15, 2026: Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon.

Score = 0.225 × rent percentile + 0.225 × price-level percentile + 0.225 × tax score + 0.225 × electricity percentile + 0.10 × gasoline percentile. Rank 1 is the lowest score. If scores tie, the lower rent share wins, then the lower price level, then the place slug in A-to-Z order.

Questions

What is the most affordable town in Wyoming in this index?

Douglas is number 1 of 17 ranked towns in Wyoming. Median rent is 12.1% of median income. Its national rank is 29.

How many towns in Wyoming were ranked?

17 towns in Wyoming have at least 5,000 people and published Census rent, income, and home value. Places missing one of those figures are left out.

Does this ranking approve benefits in Wyoming?

No. Cost & Benefits does not approve or deny benefits. The score is a cost comparison only.