Laramie County, Wyoming Eviction Risk: Low

Laramie County posts a county-wide average eviction-risk score of 2.7/10 (Low), which on its face reads as a landlord-friendly market inside Wyoming eviction laws. Spread across 10 cities and a total population of roughly 84,889, that average reflects a county where the dominant city -- Cheyenne -- keeps aggregate risk depressed. Renter share sits at 33.3% of households, average rent runs $1,123 per month, and rent burden averages 27.9% of income, all figures that point toward a generally stable tenant base. That said, Laramie County ranks 5th of 23 Wyoming eviction laws counties by risk, meaning four counties statewide carry higher scores and 18 are actually more landlord-friendly, placing this county in the higher-risk third of the state.

The more important caveat for any investor is the intra-county range: individual city scores span 1.5 to 3.7, a gap wide enough that two properties inside the same county can sit in entirely different risk tiers. Landlords treating Laramie County as a single uniform market will get burned; the right unit of analysis is the city, not the county line.

The cities inside Laramie County

Cheyenne, the county seat and by far the largest city at 65,239 people, anchors the low end of the risk range with a score of 1.5/10. Its scale and economic base keep vacancy-driven eviction pressure low relative to smaller communities. Ranchettes (5,949 residents) sits at 2.7/10, matching the county average and representing a middle-ground profile.

The riskiest addresses in the county are concentrated in smaller communities east and south of Cheyenne. Warren AFB scores 3.7/10, the highest in the county; Fox Farm-College reaches 3.6/10 with a population of 4,019; and South Greeley (4,631 residents) comes in at 3.4/10. Pine Bluffs, Burns, and Albin cluster between 3.2 and 3.3. These communities are smaller, more economically exposed, and carry measurably higher eviction risk, making diligent tenant screening especially important for investors working outside Cheyenne.

State-level laws that apply here

Under Wyo. Stat. § 1-21-1201 et seq., Wyoming landlords serve a 3-day notice for both non-payment of rent and lease violations, and a 30-day notice for end-of-term, no-cause terminations. Uncontested evictions typically resolve in 21 to 45 days; contested cases can stretch 45 to 100 days. Full procedural detail is covered in the Wyoming eviction laws eviction process guide. Cost exposure runs from $85 to $175 in court filing fees, $40 to $150 for sheriff lockout fees, and $500 to $2,500 in attorney fees, depending on complexity. Wyoming eviction laws imposes no rent control and requires no just-cause finding to terminate a tenancy, and state law preempts any local rent-control ordinance. There are no source-of-income protections under state law. Investors who want to understand the full cost picture before acquiring here should review Wyoming eviction costs alongside the state procedural rules.

With a poverty rate of 10.6% and roughly a third of households renting, the county's overall stability is real -- but as the city grid above shows, that stability is far from uniform across all 10 communities.