Best PlacesCheyenne, WY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Cheyenne area, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
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Cheyenne ranks 8th of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. It does not top any single list, but it lands above the national middle on low taxes and heat safety. The weaker spots are tree cover, air quality, and thin health care access.
The best neighborhoods in the Cheyenne 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 Cheyenne
The parts of Cheyenne, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Ranchettes
Fe Warren Afb
Downtown Cheyenne
Scores across Cheyenne run from about the 27th to the 99th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Cheyenne's strengths and weaknesses
Cheyenne ranks where it does because the parts of life that are hardest to change mostly work here. Low taxes, heat safety, and low crime are the strongest pieces.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Tree cover, air quality, and thin health care access hold the score down. The detail is below, and the map is where it turns into a choice of neighborhood rather than just a place.
Where Cheyenne ranks high
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 99% of metro areas
- Heat safetyBetter than 98% of metro areas
- Crime safetyBetter than 97% of metro areas
- Short commute17.8 minutes each way, better than 96% of metro areas
- Low vacancyBetter than 94% of metro areas
Where Cheyenne ranks low
- Tree shadeBetter than only 8% of metro areas
- Air qualityBetter than only 10% of metro areas
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 12% of metro areas
- TransitBetter than only 29% of metro areas
- QuietBetter than only 35% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Cheyenne
A household needs to earn about $91,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cheyenne home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $88,188; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment and a 6.8% 30-year fixed rate. The rate updates weekly from Freddie Mac; property tax uses Cheyenne's effective rate against the median home value.
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 Cheyenne
Cheyenne'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 Cheyenne.
Who works in Cheyenne, and how
Work in Cheyenne centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Cheyenne
Cheyenne has fewer places to eat and drink per resident than most metro areas and more parkland per resident than 83% of metro areas. The map and measures below show how they vary by area.
Is Cheyenne growing, and who is moving in?
Cheyenne has grown about 6% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Albany County, WY.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Cheyenne go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Cheyenne, month by month
Cheyenne sees roughly 127 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 42, with lows near 16. Spring and fall carry most of the comfortable stretch.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 42° | 28° | 16° |
| April | 60° | 43° | 29° |
| July | 88° | 71° | 55° |
| October | 65° | 47° | 33° |
Flying in and out of Cheyenne
The nearest airport, Cheyenne Regional/Jerry Olson Field, is about 1 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Denver International, about 89 miles away.
The best schools in and around Cheyenne
Schools across Cheyenne average a B−, better than 78% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- Poder AcademyA+ · 85% proficient
- Gilchrist ElementaryA · 72% proficient
- Pioneer Park ElementaryA · 66% proficient
Top middle schools
- Mccormick Junior High SchoolA− · 56% proficient
- Miller ElementaryB+ · 50% proficient
- Carey Junior High SchoolB · 46% proficient
Top high schools
- Poder Academy Secondary SchoolA− · 67% proficient
- Pine Bluffs Jr & Sr High SchoolB · 48% proficient
- Central High SchoolB · 48% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Cheyenne school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Cheyenne 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 Cheyenne against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Cheyenne suits
Families
Schools beat 78% of the country and crime runs low. Compare neighborhoods on the map for the best fit.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 76% of metro areas and 10% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Cheyenne
Is Cheyenne a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cheyenne ranks 8th of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on low taxes, heat safety, and low crime, and lowest on tree cover and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Cheyenne expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $350,835. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $88,188 median income, cost of living beats 76% of metro areas.
Is Cheyenne safe?
Yes, Cheyenne is safer than 97% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $200 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Cheyenne?
July highs average about 88 degrees, and January highs near 42 with lows near 16. The area gets its pleasant stretches in spring and fall.
What are the best neighborhoods in Cheyenne?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Ranchettes, Fe Warren Afb, and Downtown Cheyenne. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Cheyenne good for families?
Schools beat 78% of metro areas, and safety is best away from the urban core. Home prices are usually the catch in the strongest school areas.
Is Cheyenne good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 76% of metro areas, and internet is widely advertised, so a big-employer salary stretches further here.
Compare Cheyenne with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cheyenne. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cheyenne 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.
Cheyenne detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Cheyenne: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Cheyenne: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Cheyenne: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Cheyenne: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Cheyenne 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.