Town · Lincoln County, Wyoming

Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming

Star Valley Ranch is a town in Lincoln County, Wyoming. It has 2,007 residents. Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming has a quality-of-life score of 85 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,336 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Wyoming it ranks #12 of 56 cities and towns. It ranks best on property crime rate (low), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low) and median Air Quality Index (low). It ranks worst on distance to an emergency room (high), social associations (low) and gyms and fitness centers (low).

85Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,336 of 15,651 cities and towns
Wyoming: #12 of 56 in WY
Population: 2,007 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 743.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 5673180

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety66#5,384/15,637
Economy97#496/15,631
Housing84#2,443/14,977
Health73#4,233/15,609
Healthcare21#12,408/15,650
Environment100#48/15,453
Education95#765/15,649
Infrastructure51#7,625/15,650
Community55#7,116/15,651
Leisure & amenities72#4,321/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Lincoln 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

Property crime rate · low137 /100k
100/100Wyoming 1,038 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureLincoln County value
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 AgencyLincoln County value
Median Air Quality Index · low10
99/100Wyoming 372025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyLincoln County value
Hot days · low0 days
99/100Wyoming 10 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLincoln County value
New business applications · high28.0 /1k
97/100Wyoming 134.2 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauLincoln County value
Poverty rate · low2.0%
96/100Wyoming 10.0%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Distance to an emergency room · high22.3 mi
2/100Wyoming 15.7 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLincoln County value
Social associations · low4.3 /10k
4/100Wyoming 13.7 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLincoln County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Wyoming 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLincoln County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high143 mi
5/100Wyoming 173 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLincoln County value
Drought exposure · high89%
7/100Wyoming 74%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAALincoln County value
Traffic deaths · high29.3 /100k
8/100Wyoming 21.4 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataLincoln County value

Trends

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

Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.8× (2015-2019) → 5.8× (2020-2024)
+55%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
27.4% (2015-2019) → 36.3% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
32.5% (2015-2019) → 40.0% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Unemployment rateImproving
7.1% (2015-2019) → 1.3% (2020-2024)
−5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Broadband subscriptionsWorsening
93.9% (2015-2019) → 88.7% (2020-2024)
−5.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Public transit commutersWorsening
4.7% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−4.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B08301US 5.0% → 3.2%

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, Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming improved on 2 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 8 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−0.0740.410 → 0.336
Bachelor's++8.9 points27.4% → 36.3%

Declined1

Price / income+2.1×3.8× → 5.8×

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	44.8 min2015-2019	47.4 min2020-2024	+2.6 min	Within the margin of error	22%
Bachelor's degree or higher	27.4%2015-2019	36.3%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Improved	87%
Broadband subscriptions	93.9%2015-2019	88.7%2020-2024	−5.2 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Effective property tax rate	0.57%2015-2019	0.46%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	38%
High school diploma or higher	95.1%2015-2019	97.7%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	64%
Home price to income ratio	3.8×2015-2019	5.8×2020-2024	+2.1×	Declined	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4102015-2019	0.3362020-2024	−0.074	Improved	91%
Median household income	$77,9442015-2019	$96,0712020-2024	+23%	Within the margin of error	40%
Rent as share of income	32.5%2015-2019	40.0%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Rent-burdened households	56.0%2015-2019	60.5%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	20.8%2015-2019	18.7%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Within the margin of error	70%

“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 Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Star Valley Ranch, 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, Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming itself moved −3.5 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

2,007 residents (±368)

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

902 households (±146)

Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
Wyoming share

Under $25k4.5%†41
$25k–50k14%†130
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

902 households (±146)

Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
Wyoming share

Own90%816
Rent9.5%†86

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† 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

794 workers (±197)

Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming
Wyoming share

Drive alone63%†503
Carpool14%†111
Public transit

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 Lincoln County, the county holding most of Star Valley Ranch's residents.

Lincoln County has 948 employer establishments, 454 for every 10,000 residents (1.83× the US rate of 248; 1.11× Wyoming's), with 5,610 paid employees at an average annual pay of $60,684. The Census Bureau also counts 2,683 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 948; 2,683 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 454; US 248 · Wyoming 408
Paid employees: 5,610
Average annual pay: $60,684; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Lincoln County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	162	77.5	5.01×More than typical	534	$63,757	244
Construction of buildings	80	38.3	5.06×More than typical	242	$56,033	117
Management, scientific and technical consulting	53	25.4	3.78×More than typical	148	$36,047	101
Building equipment contractors	49	23.5	3.90×More than typical	202	$76,743	39
Other specialty trade contractors	42	20.1	8.01×More than typical	110	$56,264	98
Restaurants and other eating places	41	19.6	1.07×About typical	279	$19,516	6
Ambulatory health care services	40	19.1	0.92×About typical	199	$37,146	76
Lessors of real estate	38	18.2	1.48×More than typical	44	$57,659	349
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	36	17.2	5.47×More than typical	121	$60,562	35
Building finishing contractors	35	16.8	4.41×More than typical	101	$49,772	72
Services to buildings and dwellings	33	15.8	2.34×More than typical	87	$42,230	179
Electrical contractors and wiring installation	27	12.9	5.22×More than typical	62	$81,016	13

Rank places for an industry Open Lincoln County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 20,893 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

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

90.1FY2018
506.5FY2019
2.6KFY2020
2.2KFY2023
3KFY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming, so they do not add up across cities.

Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming's figures are part of those of Lincoln County, WY ($560.2K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Star Valley Ranch is mostly in Lincoln County.

See federal money in Lincoln 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.

Star Valley Ranch, 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.

Lincoln County89100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Lincoln 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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