Purple Sage vs Reliance

A side-by-side comparison of Purple Sage and Reliance: population, income, housing, and more.

Purple Sage and Reliance are places in Wyoming. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Purple Sage has the higher population (676 vs 400 in Reliance). Reliance has the higher median home value ($27,400 vs $9,999 in Purple Sage). Since 2019, Reliance's population has grown faster (+3.6% vs -17.4%).

Population, income & housing

	Purple Sage	Reliance
Population	676	400
Median age	33.9 yrs	40.7 yrs
Median household income	$54,527	—
Median home value	$9,999	$27,400
Median gross rent	$861	$816
Housing units	295	266
Homeownership rate	31.2%	51.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	0.0%	41.7%
Unemployment rate	3.4%	35.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Purple Sage	Reliance
Population	818 → 676 (-17.4%)	386 → 400 (+3.6%)
Median household income	$55,955 → $54,527 (-2.6%)	—
Median home value	$9,999 → $9,999 (+0.0%)	—
Median gross rent	$856 → $861 (+0.6%)	—

Purple Sage

Population

818676

Median household income

$55,955$54,527

Median home value

$9,999$9,999

Median gross rent

$856$861

Reliance

Population

386400

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Purple Sage	Reliance
Under 5	10.2%	0.0%
5 to 17	3.3%	0.0%
18 to 24	0.0%	35.3%
25 to 34	37.6%	0.0%
35 to 44	3.3%	27.0%
45 to 54	19.8%	20.8%
55 to 64	15.8%	0.0%
65 to 74	10.1%	0.0%
75 and over	0.0%	17.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Purple Sage	Reliance
White (non-Hispanic)	75.1%	28.7%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.6%	5.0%
Hispanic or Latino	23.2%	66.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Purple Sage	Reliance
No high school diploma	24.4%	0.0%
High school graduate	35.4%	41.3%
Some college or associate's	40.2%	17.0%
Bachelor's degree	0.0%	9.7%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	32.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Purple Sage	Reliance
Drove alone	72.7%	48.4%
Carpooled	27.3%	51.6%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Purple Sage	Reliance
1-unit, detached	0.0%	6.8%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	18.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	100.0%	75.2%

Poverty & households

	Purple Sage	Reliance
Poverty rate	15.4%	0.0%
Average household size	2.29	1.63
Mean commute (minutes)	16	—
Median year structure built	1989	1977