Teton County, WY

County Profile

23,396 residents. Safety, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Teton County, WY.

Several figures AreaProfile publishes are measured by county and nowhere finer — death rates by intent among them. On this page those describe the geography they are printed on, which is not true of the city and ZIP pages that inherit them.

62out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 48% of 1,225 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 17% of 1,255 counties73
GrowthTop 45% of 1,226 counties53
Housing affordability1211th of 1,255 counties54
Climate1253rd of 1,254 counties39
Physical resilienceTop 36% of 1,255 counties71
Access910th of 1,255 counties69
Economic stabilityTop 27% of 1,255 counties77
The quick read

Teton County ranks in the top 17% of published profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 1.7% and median household income of $124,172.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 153 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 21% on the prior year.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 13.2 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 18% of it.

At a glance

Population
23,396
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$124,172
Top 1% nationally
Density
6/sq mi
3996.8 sq mi of land
Median age
40.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Teton County
Wyoming
Metro area
Jackson, WY-ID
Nearest major airport
WYS
56 mi · Yellowstone
Median home value
$1,633,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 1.7% is lower than 100% of the 1,255 measured US locations.

Employment fell 1.5% over the past year, to 17,032 employed residents.

61% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 99% of measured US locations.

Household income is higher than at least 99% of measured US locations.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$24,638$124,172Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$12,227$89,594Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate5.7%Bottom 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute17.2 minBottom 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher61.1%Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment17,032Bottom 17%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-3.2%Bottom 14%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.5%Bottom 31%June 2026
Labor force17,325Bottom 16%June 2026
Labor force participation77.6%Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 28%June 2026
Unemployment rate1.7%Bottom 1%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/062.91.4
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 1.7% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024124k94k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $124,172 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

53% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 65% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 10.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
10.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
53.1%
Reading proficiency
64.5%
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Jackson Hole High SchoolTeton County School District #186112.5
Jackson Hole Middle SchoolTeton County School District #166412.852%72%
Munger Mountain Elementary SchoolTeton County School District #135510.137%42%
Jackson ElementaryTeton County School District #13197.846%61%
Colter ElementaryTeton County School District #131811.064%65%
Wilson ElementaryTeton County School District #119212.080%86%
Kelly ElementaryTeton County School District #1399.8
Summit Innovations SchoolTeton County School District #1366.0
Alta ElementaryTeton County School District #1336.6
Moran ElementaryTeton County School District #1103.3
C-V RanchBOCES 50
Red Top MeadowsRed Top Meadows - Administration Office0

26.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Wyoming’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,904 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 13.2 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
18.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
13.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,904
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$1,633,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income13.16Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate58.3%Bottom 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2313,658Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$237$1,904Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$191,937$1,633,900Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.4%Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate28.0%Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
53/ 100
Top 45% of 1,226 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing — 2 consecutive years, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has been broadly flat since 2020, at 23,272 in 2024.

At 6.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US locations.

Units permitted
153
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
6.5
Top 19% nationally
Year over year
+21%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
43.8%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202424k23k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020212022202320242025232105
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−23%).

Weather & climate

2 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 79°F and January a low of 2°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 24.1 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 44, in the Good band, and about 2 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

-10°10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MOOSE 1 NNE, 30.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index67.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation24.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low2°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high79°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months21991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10022024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing48°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
67
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

71 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are avalanche, earthquake and wildfire.

AvalancheModerate
LandslideModerate
WildfireHigh
EarthquakeHigh
Volcanic activityModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, winter weather, inland flooding, cold wave, hail, tornado, drought, ice storm, strong wind, heat wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA National Risk Index county record. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Teton County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 18.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 0.0 per 100,000 residents in Teton County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
18.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
0.0
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Teton County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Teton County rather than Teton County itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 56 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
YellowstoneWYS56 mi8,400 ft
Yellowstone RgnlCOD77 mi8,268 ft
Idaho Falls RgnlIDA90 mi9,002 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

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