[1] Its county seat is Laramie,[2] the site of the University of Wyoming.

Its southern border lies on the northern Colorado state line.

Albany County comprises the Laramie, WY Micropolitan Statistical Area.

[4][5] Charles D. Bradley, a member of the legislature of the Dakota Territory named the county for Albany, New York, the capital of his native state.

[7] At the 2000 United States Census,[11] there were 32,014 people, 13,269 households and 7,006 families in the county.

31.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 36,299 people, 15,691 households, and 7,430 families in the county.

It is one of only thirteen counties to have voted for Barack Obama in 2008, Mitt Romney in 2012, Donald Trump in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020.

[a] It is also a national bellwether, only failing to back the nationwide winner on four occasions in its history (1892, 1960, 1976, and 2012).

Laramie accounts for roughly half of the county's population, with the Laramie suburbs and the rural precincts of the county forming the other approximate half.