Douglas is a city in Converse County, Wyoming. It has 6,420 residents. Douglas, Wyoming has a quality-of-life score of 81 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,916 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Wyoming it ranks #15 of 56 cities and towns. It ranks best on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low), math scores (high) and reading scores (high). It ranks worst on distance to an airport (high), traffic deaths (high) and distance to an Amtrak station (high).
81Very high
Quality-of-life score
#2,916 of 15,651 cities and towns
Wyoming
#15 of 56 in WY
Population
6,420 (2020-2024)
Land area
7 mi²
Density
973.0 /mi²
FIPS code
5621125
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety71#4,483/15,637
Economy70#4,744/15,631
Housing94#914/14,977
Health53#7,318/15,609
Healthcare22#12,265/15,650
Environment84#2,493/15,453
Education95#854/15,649
Infrastructure43#8,924/15,650
Community69#4,803/15,651
Leisure & amenities89#1,701/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Douglas, Wyoming ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Converse County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.
How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.
Cities and towns like Douglas, Wyoming five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Douglas, Wyoming in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.
Who lives here
Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
Local businesses
Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Douglas is mostly in Converse County.
Over about five years, Douglas, Wyoming improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.
Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing
Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.
Improved1
Household income+35%$61,806 → $83,147
Median household income
$61,806 → $83,1472015-2019 → 2020-2024
+35%Beyond the margin of error (±$20,970)
Standing among cities and towns: 59 → 62 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 64% of cities and towns
Declined0
No measure declined by more than its margin of error.
All 13 measures
Change of every measure of Douglas, Wyoming between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
22.2 min2015-2019
16.5 min2020-2024
−5.7 min
Within the margin of error
92%
Bachelor's degree or higher
15.0%2015-2019
22.7%2020-2024
+7.7 points
Within the margin of error
83%
Broadband subscriptions
81.1%2015-2019
86.1%2020-2024
+5.1 points
Within the margin of error
32%
Child poverty rate
17.9%2015-2019
27.1%2020-2024
+9.2 points
Within the margin of error
13%
Effective property tax rate
0.70%2015-2019
0.56%2020-2024
−0.1 points
Within the margin of error
44%
High school diploma or higher
90.4%2015-2019
93.8%2020-2024
+3.4 points
Within the margin of error
72%
Home price to income ratio
3.0×2015-2019
3.2×2020-2024
+0.2×
Within the margin of error
66%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.3962015-2019
0.4052020-2024
+0.010
Within the margin of error
42%
Median household income
$61,8062015-2019
$83,1472020-2024
+35%
Improved
64%
Poverty rate
9.9%2015-2019
15.6%2020-2024
+5.8 points
Within the margin of error
10%
Rent as share of income
28.0%2015-2019
25.0%2020-2024
−3 points
Within the margin of error
74%
Rent-burdened households
39.7%2015-2019
28.3%2020-2024
−11 points
Within the margin of error
85%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
9.6%2015-2019
11.3%2020-2024
+1.7 points
Within the margin of error
28%
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.
Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.
For comparison, Douglas, Wyoming itself moved +8.2 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).
How the ranking works
Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.
Household income
2,794 households (±174)
Douglas, Wyoming
Wyoming share
Under $25k14%†392
Under $25k
14%±5.2 points
392 households±148 (90% margin of error)
14%in Wyoming
15%in United States
−5.0 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k22%†608
$25k–50k
22%±6.8 points
608 households±195 (90% margin of error)
18%in Wyoming
17%in United States
+0.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k12%†324
$50k–75k
12%±4.8 points
324 households±136 (90% margin of error)
17%in Wyoming
16%in United States
−6.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k8.1%†226
$75k–100k
8.1%±3.6 points
226 households±101 (90% margin of error)
14%in Wyoming
13%in United States
−15.4 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k28%775
$100k–150k
28%±6.8 points
775 households±196 (90% margin of error)
19%in Wyoming
18%in United States
+15.6 pointssince 2015–2019
$150k–200k13%†362
$150k–200k
13%±5.2 points
362 households±148 (90% margin of error)
9.5%in Wyoming
9.6%in United States
+8.4 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more3.8%†107
$200k or more
3.8%±3.0 points
107 households±84 (90% margin of error)
8.5%in Wyoming
13%in United States
+1.7 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (+15.6 points).
† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Converse County, the county holding most of Douglas's residents.
Converse County has 465 employer establishments, 335 for every 10,000 residents (1.35× the US rate of 248; 0.82× Wyoming's), with 4,169 paid employees at an average annual pay of $68,992. The Census Bureau also counts 1,168 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
465
1,168 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
335
US 248 · Wyoming 408
Paid employees
4,169
Average annual pay
$68,992
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Converse County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 13,873 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
