Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0Bow Mar has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
For 30% of workers, the job is at home; Colorado has 21%. 73 jobs are based in Bow Mar; 416 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Bow Mar for work; outside it, Denver is the main destination (28%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Bow Mar apart on work
A lot of Bow Mar works one town over
36% of working residents work in a town that borders Bow Mar: Denver (28%) and Littleton (8%). Next door ↓
Bow Mar is a place people come home to
There are 73 jobs based in Bow Mar, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bow Mar has about 490 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Bow Mar residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 7% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
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 416 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Bow Mar
On a workday 415 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 72 people come in from elsewhere.
About 490 people are in Bow Mar on a workday afternoon, 41% 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 far Bow Mar goes to work
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.
Where Bow Mar goes to work
Where Bow Mar clocks in
28% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Bow Mar
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bow Mar, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 73. 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 Bow Mar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Bow Mar’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bow Mar workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 298 commuters (the 30% 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.
36% of Bow Mar works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Denver. Darker towns draw more of Bow Mar’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 Bow Mar: questions
What is the median household income in Bow Mar?
$241,583 (±$31,373) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bow Mar?
3.5%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bow Mar?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bow Mar work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (28%, 13 mi), Littleton (8%, 3 mi), Lakewood (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bow Mar without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bow Mar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bow Mar
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.