Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Avondale has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Avondale has 23 jobs; 218 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Avondale for work; outside it, Pueblo is the main destination (37%, 14 miles). 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
Jobs and commuting in Avondale: the gist
Avondale is a place people come home to
There are 23 jobs based in Avondale, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Avondale has about 140 people in it, 58% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
37% of Avondale works in Pueblo
81 working residents, 37%, have their main job in Pueblo, 14 miles away. That’s far more as work in Avondale itself. The commute map ↓
Few Avondale 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 ↓
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 218 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Avondale by day and by night
On a workday 218 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 23 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Avondale on a workday afternoon, 58% 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.
Where people from Avondale work
Where Avondale clocks in
37% of workers
10% 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Avondale
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Avondale workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 262 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.
What Avondale’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Avondale, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 23. 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 Avondale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Avondale
About 32% 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.
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 Avondale: questions
What is the median household income in Avondale?
$96,391 (±$13,549) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Avondale?
8.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Avondale?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Avondale work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pueblo (37%, 14 mi), Colorado Springs (10%, 49 mi), Denver (4%, 109 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Avondale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Avondale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Avondale
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.