With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Aetna Estates works elsewhere
Aetna Estates has 8 jobs, against 1,487 working residents. Jobs and income earn Aetna Estates A; getting around on foot earns it C+. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, where Colorado as a whole has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Aetna Estates and work: the main findings
Aetna Estates is a place people come home to
There are 8 jobs based in Aetna Estates, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Aetna Estates has about 0 people in it, 100% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Aetna Estates workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Aetna Estates and Denver trade workers both ways
Denver is the top workplace for Aetna Estates residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Aetna Estates come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Aetna Estates
On income, poverty and job access, Aetna Estates is better than 87% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Aetna Estates’ grade up (1.1%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($74,853, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.5%) is left out: Aetna Estates’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Aetna Estates could be anywhere from B to A+.
Aetna Estates quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,486 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Aetna Estates on a workday afternoon, 100% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How long Aetna Estates spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Aetna Estates workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 597 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Colorado: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
33% of working residents work in Denver
Where Aetna Estates clocks in
33% of workers
23% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Aetna Estates
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Aetna Estates, 2013 → 2023: 16 → 8. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Aetna Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Aetna Estates
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Aetna Estates, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Aetna Estates is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 597 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 84% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Aetna Estates households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Aetna Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
Aetna Estates is 155th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 153 | Albany Township MN | 1,020 | $128K | 1.8% | 15.2% | 2% | A |
| 154 | Laona Township IL | 1,265 | $110K | 0.0% | 23.4% | 1% | A |
| 155 | Aetna Estates CO | 1,010 | $75K | 1.1% | 0.5% | <1% | A |
| 156 | Pleak TX | 1,202 | $72K | 4.7% | 1.5% | <1% | A |
| 157 | Elba WI | 1,027 | $111K | 3.5% | 1.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 509 | Loma CO | 1,350 | $141K | 5.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 539 | Dillon CO | 1,029 | $111K | 4.1% | 2.6% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 561 | Poncha Springs CO | 1,393 | $97K | 0.4% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Aetna Estates, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
Aetna Estates and its neighbors: 23% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Aetna Estates workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna Estates | – | A | C+ | 29 min | $74,853 |
| Aurora | 23% | B | A | 29 min | $88,368 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Aurora. Darker towns draw more of Aetna Estates’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Aetna Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Aetna Estates?
$74,853 (±$43,888) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Aetna Estates?
1.1%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Aetna Estates?
29 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Aetna Estates work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (33%, 11 mi), Aurora (23%, 3 mi), Centennial (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Aetna Estates walkable?
Aetna Estates is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Aetna Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Aetna Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Aetna Estates
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.