Elmer and Etta Ball Ranch · Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0Briggsdale at work: jobs, income and the commute
For 6% of workers, the job is at home (Colorado 21%). Only 2% work in Briggsdale itself; outside it, Greeley draws the most (18%, 28 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 18 minutes (Colorado 25, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 44 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 51 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 (1.16 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Briggsdale work
Where Briggsdale clocks in
18% of workers
13% 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.
In Briggsdale, services account for most jobs
52 jobs are based in Briggsdale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Briggsdale, 2014 → 2024: 36 → 52. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Briggsdale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Briggsdale takes about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Briggsdale workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 52 commuters (the 5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Briggsdale
About 31% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Briggsdale: questions
What is the poverty rate in Briggsdale?
11.4%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Briggsdale?
18 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Briggsdale work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greeley (18%, 28 mi), Fort Collins (13%, 39 mi), Colorado Springs (4%, 124 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Briggsdale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Briggsdale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Briggsdale
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.