Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Ault have higher incomes than those in 73% of U.S. towns
For 12% of workers, the job is at home; Colorado has 21%. 4.9% of residents live below the poverty line, against 9.4% across Colorado. The two grades for Ault are B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Ault, in brief
Ault makes and builds things
47% of the jobs based in Ault are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ault residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Ault has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Ault went from 480 in 2013 to 733 in 2023, +53%. The jobs ↓
Ault workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 25 across Colorado. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 929 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Ault’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Ault is better than 69% of U.S. towns, #76 of 159 in Colorado. The poverty rate holds Ault’s grade up; unemployment pulls it down (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ault could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Goods, not services: 47% of the jobs in Ault
733 jobs are based in Ault.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ault, 2013 → 2023: 480 → 733. 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 Ault’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 33 minutes each way, longer than most of Colorado
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ault workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,093 commuters (the 12% 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 893 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 697 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in Fort Collins
Where Ault clocks in
16% of workers
14% of workers
7% 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.
How far it is to work from Ault
About 22% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Ault is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ault is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #141 of 159 in Colorado. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 6.4% across Colorado.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,240 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 2.2% of Ault households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ault’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Ault is 1,236th of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Stepping Stone CO | 3,137 | $224K | 0.0% | 2.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Holly Hills CO | 2,572 | $122K | 6.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 143 | Acres Green CO | 2,639 | $142K | 8.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,234 | Ridgemark CA | 3,403 | $130K | 4.6% | 4.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,235 | Sewanee TN | 2,936 | $136K | 12.0% | 1.0% | 31% | B+ |
| 1,236 | Ault CO | 2,667 | $95K | 4.9% | 4.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,237 | Rollinsford NH | 2,621 | $90K | 4.8% | 3.9% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,238 | Creston OH | 2,143 | $69K | 4.8% | 3.8% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Ault, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
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 Ault: questions
What is the median household income in Ault?
$95,049 (±$15,352) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ault?
4.9%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ault?
33 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ault work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Collins (16%, 17 mi), Greeley (14%, 12 mi), Loveland (7%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ault walkable?
Ault is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ault without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ault, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ault
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.