Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Byers has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income B+: better than 67% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B: more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 72% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 37 minutes each way (Colorado 25, U.S. 26). Only 4% work in Byers; the top destination outside it is Denver (19%, 36 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Byers
Byers’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Byers is Denver, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 19% of working residents (111) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Byers workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 25 across Colorado. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 570 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Byers’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Byers is better than 67% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Byers’ grade up (3.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (13.6%) is left out: Byers’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Byers could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Half of Byers commutes less than 36 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
About 37 minutes each way, longer than most of Colorado
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Byers workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 667 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Colorado: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Byers quiets down on a workday
On a workday 547 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 267 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Byers on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.51 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
19% of working residents work in Denver
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Byers clocks in
19% of workers
15% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 290 jobs in Byers are
290 jobs are based in Byers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Byers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Byers, 2013 → 2023: 234 → 290. 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.
Most trips from Byers start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Byers is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Byers near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 744 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.2% of Byers households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Byers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Byers is 1,262nd of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Byers, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Columbine Valley CO | 1,684 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 721 | Perry Park CO | 1,570 | $158K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 998 | Nederland CO | 1,463 | $123K | 2.7% | 3.4% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,260 | Delaware Township OH | 2,009 | $91K | 5.1% | 0.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,261 | Rio Verde AZ | 2,261 | $132K | 6.3% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,262 | Byers CO | 1,726 | $94K | 3.3% | 13.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,263 | Key Vista FL | 1,418 | $75K | 5.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,264 | Poncha Springs CO | 1,393 | $97K | 0.4% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
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 Byers: questions
What is the median household income in Byers?
$93,571 (±$30,238) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Byers?
3.3%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Byers?
37 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Byers work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (19%, 36 mi), Aurora (15%, 27 mi), Strasburg (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Byers walkable?
Byers is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Byers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Byers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Byers
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.