Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Branson has 3.5 jobs per working resident, and 66 people come in to work
Hardly any work in Branson itself; outside it, Trinidad draws the most (26%, 35 miles). 66 jobs are based in Branson, against 19 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Colorado has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Branson
On a workday 19 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 100 people are in Branson on a workday afternoon, 82% more 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.
The towns that send workers to Branson
Where Branson clocks in
26% of workers
11% 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.
Most jobs in Branson are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Branson, 2013 → 2023: 57 → 66. 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 Branson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way for Branson’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Branson workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10 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.
Miles to work from Branson
About 44% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Branson workers work outside Colorado. The job records count 15% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Branson: questions
What is the median household income in Branson?
$34,063 (±$19,982) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Branson?
11.3%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Branson?
21 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Branson work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Trinidad (26%, 35 mi), Denver (11%, 197 mi), Kim (5%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Branson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Branson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Branson
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.