Town · Converse County, Wyoming

Glenrock, Wyoming

Glenrock is a town in Converse County, Wyoming. It has 2,941 residents. Glenrock, Wyoming has a quality-of-life score of 76 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,687 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Wyoming it ranks #21 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).

76High

Quality-of-life score: #3,687 of 15,651 cities and towns
Wyoming: #21 of 56 in WY
Population: 2,941 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,204.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 5632435

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety71#4,483/15,637
Economy83#2,612/15,631
Housing74#3,968/14,977
Health46#8,466/15,609
Healthcare18#12,809/15,650
Environment84#2,493/15,453
Education93#1,048/15,649
Infrastructure30#10,955/15,650
Community69#4,803/15,651
Leisure & amenities89#1,701/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Glenrock, 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.

Strengths

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low3.9 µg/m³
99/100Wyoming 4.4 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyConverse County value
Math scores · high3.52
97/100Wyoming 3.23United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteConverse County value
Reading scores · high3.48
97/100Wyoming 3.24United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteConverse County value
Students per teacher · low10.5×
96/100Wyoming 12.3×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsConverse County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.332
96/100Wyoming 0.454United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
High school diploma or higher · high95.4%
96/100Wyoming 94.2%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Weaknesses

Distance to an airport · high207 mi
1/100Wyoming 131 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauConverse County value
Traffic deaths · high47.9 /100k
2/100Wyoming 21.4 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataConverse County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high188 mi
3/100Wyoming 173 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauConverse County value
Distance to an emergency room · high19.6 mi
3/100Wyoming 15.7 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesConverse County value
Suicide rate · high28.5 /100k
5/100Wyoming 30.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataConverse County value
Comfortable days · low22.7%
6/100Wyoming 24.3%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationConverse County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
2,594 (2015-2019) → 2,941 (2020-2024)
+13%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
41.3% (2015-2019) → 64.9% (2020-2024)
+24 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
73.2% (2015-2019) → 87.2% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
22.2% (2015-2019) → 32.4% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
New homes permittedImproving
0.7 /1k (2021) → 1.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+49%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Child poverty rateImproving
12.7% (2015-2019) → 3.7% (2020-2024)
−9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

What changed in five years

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.

Over about five years, Glenrock, Wyoming improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 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.

Improved2

Inequality−0.0630.395 → 0.332
Broadband+14 points73.2% → 87.2%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Glenrock, Wyoming between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.2 min2015-2019	26.0 min2020-2024	−0.1 min	Within the margin of error	49%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.3%2015-2019	20.1%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Broadband subscriptions	73.2%2015-2019	87.2%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	76%
Effective property tax rate	0.58%2015-2019	0.62%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	10%
High school diploma or higher	91.9%2015-2019	95.4%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	3.6×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	39%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3952015-2019	0.3322020-2024	−0.063	Improved	89%
Median household income	$61,1672015-2019	$64,8062020-2024	+5.9%	Within the margin of error	12%
Poverty rate	11.0%2015-2019	6.5%2020-2024	−4.5 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Rent as share of income	22.2%2015-2019	32.4%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Rent-burdened households	41.3%2015-2019	64.9%2020-2024	+24 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	16.6%2015-2019	18.4%2020-2024	+1.8 points	Within the margin of error	27%

“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.

Cities and towns like Glenrock, Wyoming five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Glenrock, 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.

For comparison, Glenrock, Wyoming itself moved −10.8 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.

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).

Age and sex

2,941 residents (±413)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,117 households (±129)

Glenrock, Wyoming
Wyoming share

Under $25k11%†125
$25k–50k17%†191
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,117 households (±129)

Glenrock, Wyoming
Wyoming share

Own74%828
Rent26%†289

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+13.4 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,418 workers (±310)

Glenrock, Wyoming
Wyoming share

Drive alone81%1,152
Carpool10%†142
Public transit0.0%0

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.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Converse County, the county holding most of Glenrock'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

Truck transportation	35	25.2	4.99×More than typical	72	$111,014	50
Specialty trade contractors	27	19.5	1.26×More than typical	141	$64,809	87
Restaurants and other eating places	21	15.1	0.82×About typical	284	$17,595	5
Lessors of real estate	18	13	1.05×About typical	36	$33,111	152
Ambulatory health care services	16	11.5	0.55×Fewer than typical	138	$59,275	53
Automotive repair and maintenance	16	11.5	2.29×More than typical	106	$62,491	28
Services to buildings and dwellings	14	10.1	1.50×More than typical	12	$74,417	65
Heavy and civil engineering construction	13	9.4	8.17×More than typical	259	$109,398	—
Construction of buildings	12	8.6	1.14×About typical	85	$89,506	30
Full-service restaurants	12	8.6	1.13×About typical	153	$14,529	—
Religious organizations	12	8.6	1.56×More than typical	38	$20,842	—
Building equipment contractors	10	7.2	1.20×About typical	75	$72,907	14

Rank places for an industry Open Converse County

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.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Glenrock is mostly in Converse County.

See federal money in Converse County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Glenrock, Wyoming is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Harriet M. HagemanR-WY · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 0.3%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Converse County85100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Converse County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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