Best PlacesCasper, WY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Casper metro, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Costs and crime read low across the board, which puts the choice down to which part suits you. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
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Casper ranks 24th of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. It earns the spot by being affordable and steady rather than flashy: everyday costs run well below the national average, and crime is low. The trade is distance from a big city: the nearest large city and its jobs, flights, and culture are a drive away.
The best neighborhoods in the Casper metro
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
The best areas in Casper
The towns and districts of the Casper metro, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood in each, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the metro.
Downtown Casper
Streets are more walkable.
Bar Nunn
Fewer homes sit empty, though fewer adults hold degrees.
Evansville
More households have young kids, though fewer residents vote.
Mills
Local pay stretches less far and incomes run lower.
Scores across Casper run from about the 17th to the 98th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Casper's strengths and weaknesses
Casper ranks where it does because the parts of life that are hardest to change mostly work here. Low taxes is the standout, in the top 1% of metro areas. Low crime and heat safety follow.
The one real hole is distance from a big city, near the bottom of the country. Thin health care access and tree cover also cost it ground. The measures below break that down, and the map shows how much of it holds street by street.
Where Casper ranks high
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 99% of metro areas
- Crime safetyBetter than 99% of metro areas
- Heat safetyBetter than 95% of metro areas
- Short commute19.0 minutes each way, better than 92% of metro areas
- Disaster safetyBetter than 89% of metro areas
Where Casper ranks low
- Big-city accessBetter than only 1% of metro areas
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 7% of metro areas
- Tree shadeBetter than only 9% of metro areas
- TransitBetter than only 13% of metro areas
- Air qualityBetter than only 36% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Casper
A household needs to earn about $76,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Casper home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $80,965, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Casper's effective rate of 0.58%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Casper
Casper's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Casper.
Who works in Casper, and how
Work in Casper centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Casper
Casper has less parkland per resident than most metro areas and less late-night activity than most metro areas. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Casper and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Casper growing, and who is moving in?
Casper has lost about 1% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Albany County, WY.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Casper go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Casper, month by month
Casper sees roughly 140 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 14. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36° | 25° | 14° |
| April | 59° | 41° | 26° |
| July | 93° | 72° | 51° |
| October | 63° | 45° | 30° |
Flying in and out of Casper
The nearest airport, Casper/Natrona County International, is about 8 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Denver International, about 223 miles away.
The best schools in and around Casper
Schools across Casper average a C+, better than 40% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- Ft. Caspar AcademyA · 70% proficient
- Summit Elementary SchoolA · 64% proficient
- Verda James ElementaryB+ · 52% proficient
Top middle schools
- Casper Classical AcademyA · 60% proficient
- C Y Middle SchoolA− · 56% proficient
- Centennial Middle SchoolB · 44% proficient
Top high schools
- Kelly Walsh High SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
- Natrona County High SchoolB · 48% proficient
- Glenrock Jr/sr High SchoolC · 33% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Casper school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Casper measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Casper against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Casper suits
Families
Schools land around the 40th percentile and crime safety beats 99%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 80% of metro areas, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 10% already work from home.
Retirees
The weather beats 83% of metro areas and it is quieter than 83%.
Common questions about living in Casper
Is Casper a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Casper ranks 24th of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on low taxes, low crime, and heat safety, and lowest on distance from a big city and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Casper expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $298,698. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $80,965 median income, cost of living beats 80% of metro areas.
Is Casper safe?
Yes, Casper is safer than 99% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $188 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Casper?
July highs average about 93 degrees, and January highs near 36 with lows near 14. That works out to about 140 pleasant days a year, more than 83% of metro areas.
What are the best neighborhoods in Casper?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Downtown Casper, Bar Nunn, and Evansville. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Casper good for families?
Schools beat 40% of metro areas, crime safety beats 99%, and childcare runs $795 a month.
Is Casper good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 80% of metro areas, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 73% of metro areas. About 10% of workers already work from home.
Compare Casper with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Casper. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Casper represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Casper detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Casper: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Casper: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Casper: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Casper: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Casper detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.