Wyoming — financial stress by county

The Financial Stress Index (FSI) combines renter cost burden, eviction rate, and debt in collections into a 0–100 score. 19 of 23 Wyoming counties have all three inputs and receive a score. The average FSI across reporting counties is 33.3. Laramie, WY has the highest score at 65.

Data note: The eviction rate component draws from the Princeton Eviction Lab's last national county release (2018). Post-pandemic eviction trends are not reflected in these scores — counties with high pre-2020 eviction activity may score differently if updated data were available. Rent burden and debt figures use 2024 ACS and Urban Institute data; the debt-collections input reflects credit-active adults only — those with a credit-bureau file.

Debt-input note: Wyoming's debt-in-collections rate — 30% of the FSI score — is driven primarily by medical debt (90th percentile nationally among states), not evenly spread across debt types. See the full debt breakdown for Wyoming.

Among states with reliable FSI coverage (≥60% of counties scored), Wyoming ranks #32 of 36 states. The average FSI of 33.3 is 37% below the national average FSI of 52.6.

Wyoming ranks #5 of 8 in the West by average FSI score — between Hawaii (46.7) just above and Montana (31.4) just below.