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Wyoming Counties

Complete list of all 23 counties in Wyoming with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.

Counties
23
Population
577,719
Area
97,093 sq mi
Capital
Cheyenne
Time Zone
Mountain (MT)
Labeled map of Wyoming counties

Labeled outline map of Wyoming counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.

All 25 Wyoming counties

County County Seat Population Area Median Income Cities
Bonneville131,0270 mi²$79,5038
Laramie101,0862,686 mi²$82,40810
Natrona79,9375,340 mi²$73,04310
Summit60,2670 mi²$128,5838
Campbell47,3794,803 mi²$92,2016
Sweetwater41,54210,427 mi²$75,70711
Fremont39,5339,184 mi²$65,24213
Albany38,1724,274 mi²$62,7057
Sheridan32,0872,524 mi²$74,35411
Park31,3216,942 mi²$72,8517
Teton22,9283,995 mi²$128,0447
Lincoln20,3164,076 mi²$94,82115
Carbon14,3537,898 mi²$70,65712
Converse13,8054,255 mi²$81,6484
Goshen12,5522,225 mi²$60,1779

How many counties does Wyoming have?

Wyoming has 23 counties covering 97,093 square miles and roughly 577,719 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1890 as the 44th state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.

The largest county by land area is Sweetwater County at 10,427 square miles, home to about 41,542 residents. The most populous is Bonneville County with approximately 131,027 residents — a density of about 131,027 people per square mile.

At the other end of the scale, Niobrara County has only about 2,289 residents.

Cheyenne is both the state capital and the largest city in Wyoming.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Wyoming’s county boundaries from our blank map of Wyoming page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Wyoming county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Wyoming address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Wyoming specifically: the 100-mile radius around Cheyenne measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Wyoming ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Wyoming’s 23 counties in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Wyoming has 23 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1890 as the 44th state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.
Sweetwater County is the largest by land area at 10,427 square miles, with about 41,542 residents.
Bonneville County is the most populous, with approximately 131,027 residents over 0 square miles.
Niobrara County has the smallest population at about 2,289 residents.
Cheyenne is both the state capital and the largest city in Wyoming.
Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.
Data sources

Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.

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