Photo: Russell Lee · Public domainAguilar has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Home is the office for 10% of workers, where Colorado as a whole has 21%. 49 jobs are based in Aguilar for 146 working residents. Only 3% work in Aguilar; the top destination outside it is Trinidad (39%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Aguilar, and who commutes in
On a workday 142 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 45 people come in from elsewhere.
About 350 people are in Aguilar on a workday afternoon, 22% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Aguilar goes to work
Where Aguilar clocks in
39% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Aguilar: what the 49 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Aguilar, 2014 → 2024: 62 → 49. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Aguilar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes each way for Aguilar’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Aguilar workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 175 commuters (the 10% 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.
Miles to work from Aguilar
About 46% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Aguilar: questions
What is the median household income in Aguilar?
$28,795 (±$902) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Aguilar?
18.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Aguilar?
20 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Aguilar work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Trinidad (39%, 18 mi), Colorado Springs (8%, 101 mi), Pueblo (5%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Aguilar without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Aguilar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Aguilar
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.