101,783 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.0% since 2020)
2,686 square miles of land · 38 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
19 active community water systems list Laramie County in the area they serve, reporting 85,682 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CHEYENNE BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES surface water · local government · WY5600011 | 64,165 served |
| SOUTH CHEYENNE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · WY5600239 | 10,000 served |
| USAF F.E. WARREN AFB buys surface water · federal · WY5680122 | 5,500 served |
| PINE BLUFFS, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · WY5600040 | 1,186 served |
| WINCHESTER HILLS groundwater · private · WY5600779 | 1,078 served |
| BURNS BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES groundwater · local government · WY5600188 | 1,024 served |
| WEST WINDS buys surface water · private · WY5601619 | 663 served |
| BIG COUNTRY ESTATES buys surface water · private · WY5601271 | 615 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 230 people were held in Laramie County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 355 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 221.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
2 school districts have their office in Laramie County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $282 million — $254 million to run schools, about $18,376 per student, plus $27.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $101.9 million local (mostly property tax), $152.5 million state, $40.1 million federal.
Spent $23.3 million — $21.5 million to run schools, about $19,692 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.9 million local (mostly property tax), $4.6 million state, $2.3 million federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Laramie County about $41.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
255 bridges in Laramie County: 60 in good condition, 167 fair, and 28 poor (11.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| WYO 212 over Crow Creek · built 1976 | 13,625 vehicles a day |
| WYO 212 over I-80 · built 1977 | 13,143 vehicles a day |
| I-25 NBL over I-80 · built 1963 | 11,096 vehicles a day |
| I-25 SBL over UPRR / US 30 · built 1963 | 11,014 vehicles a day |
| I-80 EBL over CR 123-1 (Southwest Dr) · built 1965 | 10,938 vehicles a day |
| I-80 EBL over South Greeley Highway · built 1966 | 10,938 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $226.9 million of work in Laramie County in fiscal 2025, about $2,257 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Wyoming are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Laramie County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Laramie County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Kimball County, NE (50 mi) · Banner County, NE (51 mi) · Weld County, CO (53 mi) · Goshen County (57 mi) · Platte County (60 mi) · Albany County (61 mi).