Purple Sage vs Rock Springs

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

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

Rock Springs has the higher population (23,229 vs 676 in Purple Sage). Rock Springs has the higher median household income ($73,307 vs $54,527 in Purple Sage). Rock Springs has the higher median home value ($245,600 vs $9,999 in Purple Sage).

Population, income & housing

	Purple Sage	Rock Springs
Population	676	23,229
Median age	33.9 yrs	35.8 yrs
Median household income	$54,527	$73,307
Median home value	$9,999	$245,600
Median gross rent	$861	$943
Housing units	295	10,722
Homeownership rate	31.2%	71.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	0.0%	21.4%
Unemployment rate	3.4%	5.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Purple Sage	Rock Springs
Population	818 → 676 (-17.4%)	23,319 → 23,229 (-0.4%)
Median household income	$55,955 → $54,527 (-2.6%)	$76,722 → $73,307 (-4.5%)
Median home value	$9,999 → $9,999 (+0.0%)	$211,800 → $245,600 (+16.0%)
Median gross rent	$856 → $861 (+0.6%)	$878 → $943 (+7.4%)

Purple Sage

Population

818676

Median household income

$55,955$54,527

Median home value

$9,999$9,999

Median gross rent

$856$861

Rock Springs

Population

23,31923,229

Median household income

$76,722$73,307

Median home value

$211,800$245,600

Median gross rent

$878$943

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Purple Sage	Rock Springs
Under 5	10.2%	5.1%
5 to 17	3.3%	21.0%
18 to 24	0.0%	9.9%
25 to 34	37.6%	12.2%
35 to 44	3.3%	16.0%
45 to 54	19.8%	11.7%
55 to 64	15.8%	10.9%
65 to 74	10.1%	8.7%
75 and over	0.0%	4.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Purple Sage	Rock Springs
White (non-Hispanic)	75.1%	74.6%
Black or African American	0.0%	2.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.9%
Asian	0.0%	0.9%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	1.1%
Two or more races	1.6%	3.0%
Hispanic or Latino	23.2%	17.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Purple Sage	Rock Springs
No high school diploma	24.4%	8.3%
High school graduate	35.4%	31.2%
Some college or associate's	40.2%	39.2%
Bachelor's degree	0.0%	14.0%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	7.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Purple Sage	Rock Springs
Drove alone	72.7%	81.3%
Carpooled	27.3%	12.8%
Public transit	0.0%	1.8%
Walked	0.0%	1.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	1.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	1.9%
Other means	0.0%	0.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Purple Sage	Rock Springs
1-unit, detached	0.0%	62.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	8.5%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	6.8%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	6.5%
20 or more units	0.0%	3.4%
Mobile home & other	100.0%	12.8%

Poverty & households

	Purple Sage	Rock Springs
Poverty rate	15.4%	15.7%
Average household size	2.29	2.45
Mean commute (minutes)	16	20
Median year structure built	1989	1980