West River, Wyoming
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Males: 154 | (51.1%) |
Females: 149 | (48.9%) |
Median resident age: | 38.5 years |
Wyoming median age: | 36.2 years |
Zip codes: 82401.
West River: | $79,884 |
WY: | $65,204 |
Estimated per capita income in 2021: $34,380 (it was $19,238 in 2000)
West River CDP income, earnings, and wages data
Estimated median house or condo value in 2021: $284,390 (it was $115,400 in 2000)
West River: | $284,390 |
WY: | $266,400 |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in West River, WY
- 28990.0%White alone
- 278.4%Hispanic
- 30.9%Two or more races
- 20.6%American Indian alone
Races in West River detailed stats: ancestries, foreign born residents, place of birth
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Ancestries: German (33.6%), English (24.3%), French (11.2%), Portuguese (10.0%), Irish (6.5%), Danish (3.4%).
Current Local Time: MST time zone
Land area: 57.2 square miles.
Population density: 5.3 people per square mile (very low).
5 residents are foreign born
This place: | 1.6% |
Wyoming: | 2.3% |
West River CDP: | 0.8% ($931) |
Wyoming: | 0.7% ($627) |
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Billings, MT (120.0 miles , pop. 89,847).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: West Adams, CO (329.9 miles , pop. 259,628).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Phoenix, AZ (763.3 miles , pop. 1,321,045).
Nearest cities:
Latitude: 44.10 N, Longitude: 107.98 W
Area code commonly used in this area: 307
Here: | 5.7% |
Wyoming: | 4.1% |
- Cooks and food preparation workers (12.5%)
- Information and record clerks, except customer service representatives (9.7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers, including supervisors (9.7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8.3%)
- Extraction workers (8.3%)
- Teachers, secondary school (6.9%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (6.9%)
- Extraction workers (16.9%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (14.1%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (14.1%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8.5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7.0%)
- Art and design workers (7.0%)
- Supervisors, construction and extraction workers (7.0%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (24.7%)
- Information and record clerks, except customer service representatives (19.2%)
- Other office and administrative support workers, including supervisors (19.2%)
- Teachers, secondary school (13.7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8.2%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8.2%)
- Operations specialties managers, except financial managers (6.8%)
Average climate in West River, Wyoming
Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations
(lower is better)
Air Quality Index (AQI) level in 2018 was 49.4. This is significantly better than average.
City: | 49.4 |
U.S.: | 74.2 |
Ozone [ppb] level in 2018 was 32.9. This is about average. Closest monitor was 13.0 miles away from the city center.
City: | 32.9 |
U.S.: | 33.3 |
Earthquake activity:
West River-area historical earthquake activity is significantly above Wyoming state average. It is 945% greater than the overall U.S. average.On 8/18/1959 at 06:37:13, a magnitude 7.7 (7.7 UK, Class: Major, Intensity: VIII - XII) earthquake occurred 136.2 miles away from West River center, causing $26,000,000 total damage
On 10/28/1983 at 14:06:06, a magnitude 7.3 (6.2 MB, 7.3 MS, 7.0 MW) earthquake occurred 289.2 miles away from the city center, causing 2 deaths (2 shaking deaths) and 3 injuries, causing $15,000,000 total damage
On 6/30/1975 at 18:54:13, a magnitude 6.1 (5.6 MB, 5.9 MS, 6.1 UK, 6.1 ML, Class: Strong, Intensity: VII - IX) earthquake occurred 142.0 miles away from West River center
On 2/3/1994 at 09:05:04, a magnitude 5.8 (5.4 MB, 5.5 MS, 5.8 MW, 5.8 ML, Depth: 4.9 mi, Class: Moderate, Intensity: VI - VII) earthquake occurred 175.5 miles away from the city center
On 3/28/1975 at 02:31:05, a magnitude 6.2 (6.1 MB, 6.0 MS, 6.2 ML) earthquake occurred 269.0 miles away from West River center
On 3/31/2020 at 23:52:30, a magnitude 6.5 (6.5 MW, Depth: 7.5 mi) earthquake occurred 354.2 miles away from West River center
Magnitude types: body-wave magnitude (MB), local magnitude (ML), surface-wave magnitude (MS), moment magnitude (MW)
Natural disasters:
The number of natural disasters in Washakie County (4) is a lot smaller than the US average (15).Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 2
Causes of natural disasters: Floods: 3, Storms: 2, Landslide: 1, Mudslide: 1, Other: 1 (Note: some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to West River:
- Sheridan College (about 70 miles; Sheridan, WY; Full-time enrollment: 2,070)
- Montana State University-Billings (about 121 miles; Billings, MT; FT enrollment: 4,319)
- Casper College (about 121 miles; Casper, WY; FT enrollment: 2,770)
- Western Wyoming Community College (about 185 miles; Rock Springs, WY; FT enrollment: 2,086)
- Montana State University (about 186 miles; Bozeman, MT; FT enrollment: 12,942)
- Brigham Young University-Idaho (about 191 miles; Rexburg, ID; FT enrollment: 30,522)
- Black Hills State University (about 206 miles; Spearfish, SD; FT enrollment: 3,166)
Public elementary/middle school in West River:
- LITTLE POWDER ELEMENTARY (Students: 19, Location: 15902 US HIGHWAY 59 NORTH, Grades: KG-8)
Points of interest:
Reservoirs: Leithead Reservoir (A), Sand Butte Reservoir (B). Display/hide their locations on the map
Creeks: Sixmile Creek (A), North Fork Tenmile Creek (B). Display/hide their locations on the map
This place: | 2.8 people |
Wyoming: | 2.5 people |
This place: | 85.8% |
Whole state: | 67.9% |
This place: | 2.7% |
Whole state: | 5.4% |
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.9% of all households
This place: | 15.2% |
Whole state: | 11.4% |
For population 15 years and over in West River:
- Never married: 9.8%
- Now married: 64.5%
- Separated: 4.3%
- Widowed: 6.8%
- Divorced: 14.5%
For population 25 years and over in West River:
- High school or higher: 83.3%
- Bachelor's degree or higher: 21.6%
- Graduate or professional degree: 4.4%
- Unemployed: 3.4%
- Mean travel time to work (commute): 13.1 minutes
Here: | 8.5 |
Wyoming average: | 10.0 |
Graphs represent county-level data. Detailed 2008 Election Results
Religion statistics for West River, WY (based on Washakie County data)
Religion | Adherents | Congregations |
---|---|---|
Evangelical Protestant | 1,330 | 15 |
Other | 1,130 | 4 |
Catholic | 809 | 1 |
Mainline Protestant | 757 | 5 |
Orthodox | - | - |
None | 4,507 | - |
Food Environment Statistics:
Here: | 3.84 / 10,000 pop. |
Wyoming: | 2.10 / 10,000 pop. |
Washakie County: | 6.40 / 10,000 pop. |
Wyoming: | 5.36 / 10,000 pop. |
Here: | 19.19 / 10,000 pop. |
Wyoming: | 10.08 / 10,000 pop. |
This county: | 10.7% |
Wyoming: | 7.1% |
Here: | 23.9% |
Wyoming: | 24.4% |
Strongest AM radio stations in West River:
- KWOR (1340 AM; 1 kW; WORLAND, WY; Owner: KWOR, INCORPORATED)
- KZMQ (1140 AM; daytime; 10 kW; GREYBULL, WY; Owner: LEGEND COMMUNICATIONS OF WYOMING LLC)
- KTWO (1030 AM; 50 kW; CASPER, WY; Owner: CITICASTERS LICENSES, L.P.)
- KUYO (830 AM; daytime; 25 kW; EVANSVILLE, WY; Owner: WYOMING CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KPOW (1260 AM; 5 kW; POWELL, WY; Owner: CHAPARRAL BROADCASTING, INC.)
- KROE (930 AM; 5 kW; SHERIDAN, WY; Owner: LOVCOM, INC.)
- KALL (700 AM; 50 kW; NORTH SALT LAKE CITY, UT; Owner: CITICASTERS LICENSES, L.P.)
- KWYO (1410 AM; 5 kW; SHERIDAN, WY; Owner: KWYO AM, LLC)
- KTHE (1240 AM; 1 kW; THERMOPOLIS, WY; Owner: CARJIM, LLC)
- KLTT (670 AM; 50 kW; COMMERCE CITY, CO; Owner: KLZ RADIO, INC.)
- KKZN (760 AM; 50 kW; THORNTON, CO; Owner: JACOR BROADCASTING OF COLORADO, INC.)
- KBHB (810 AM; 25 kW; STURGIS, SD; Owner: MONTEREY LICENSES, LLC)
- KIQN (1010 AM; 50 kW; TOOELE, UT)
Strongest FM radio stations in West River:
- K273AD (102.5 FM; WORLAND, WY; Owner: WESTERN INSPIRATIONAL B/CASTING, INC)
- KKLX (96.1 FM; WORLAND, WY; Owner: KWOR, INCORPORATED)
- K244CK (96.7 FM; COWLEY, ETC., WY; Owner: CONNECTION COMMUNICATIONS ASSOC., INC.)
- KZMQ-FM (100.3 FM; GREYBULL, WY; Owner: LEGEND COMMUNICATIONS OF WYOMING LLC)
- KWYW (99.1 FM; LOST CABIN, WY; Owner: JIMMY RAY CARROLL)
- KDNO (101.7 FM; THERMOPOLIS, WY; Owner: CARJIM, LLC)
- KWRR (89.5 FM; ETHETE, WY; Owner: BUSINESS COUNCIL OF THE NORTHERN ARAPAHO TRIBE)
- KZZS (98.3 FM; STORY, WY; Owner: LEGEND COMMUNICATIONS OF WYOMING, L.L.C.)
- KUWP (90.1 FM; POWELL, WY; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING)
- K203BI (88.5 FM; WORLAND, WY; Owner: MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY-BILLINGS)
- National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
- 8Number of bridges
- 43ft / 13.0mTotal length
- $520,000Total costs
- 9,376Total average daily traffic
- 674Total average daily truck traffic
- 13,126Total future (year 2041) average daily traffic
- 57.4%Utility gas
- 14.8%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 13.0%Electricity
- 9.3%Wood
- 5.6%Coal or coke
- 55.6%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 44.4%Utility gas
West River compared to Wyoming state average:
- Unemployed percentage significantly below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage below state average.
- Renting percentage significantly below state average.
- Length of stay since moving in significantly above state average.
- Number of rooms per house significantly below state average.
- House age significantly below state average.