Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.39 minutes getting to work every day.
In terms of college education, Cheyenne is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.26% of adults in Cheyenne have a college degree.
The per capita income in Cheyenne in 2022 was $41,908, which is wealthy relative to Wyoming, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,632 for a family of four. However, Cheyenne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cheyenne is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cheyenne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cheyenne residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Cheyenne also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.46% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cheyenne include German, Irish, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Cheyenne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
