Blue Sky has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 0% of workers; Colorado has 21%. Blue Sky has 2 jobs, against 24 working residents. Hardly any work in Blue Sky; the top destination outside it is Fort Morgan (17%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Blue Sky
On a workday 24 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Blue Sky 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.
Where the trip to work from Blue Sky ends
Where Blue Sky clocks in
17% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Blue Sky
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Blue Sky’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Blue Sky
of Blue Sky workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 19 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.
Where in the region Blue Sky works
About 67% 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 Blue Sky: questions
What is the poverty rate in Blue Sky?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Blue Sky work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Morgan (17%, 4 mi), Greenwood Village (8%, 75 mi), Aurora (8%, 63 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Blue Sky 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 Blue Sky, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blue Sky
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.