Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Cattle Creek draws 445 commuters a day, with 1.8 jobs for every working resident
4% of workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado. There are 451 jobs in Cattle Creek; 252 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in Cattle Creek; the top destination outside it is Glenwood Springs (26%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cattle Creek and work: the main findings
Cattle Creek and Glenwood Springs trade workers both ways
Glenwood Springs is the top workplace for Cattle Creek residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Cattle Creek come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Cattle Creek workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
The jobs in Cattle Creek pay better than its residents’ jobs
74% of the jobs based in Cattle Creek pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 56% of the jobs Cattle Creek residents hold. 99% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Cattle Creek. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 252 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily trip into Cattle Creek
Where Cattle Creek clocks in
26% 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.
How long Cattle Creek spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cattle Creek workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 275 commuters (the 4% 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.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Cattle Creek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cattle Creek, 2014 → 2024: 354 → 451. 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 Cattle Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Cattle Creek by day and by night
On a workday 246 residents head out to work and 6 work right here.
About 600 people are in Cattle Creek on a workday afternoon, 50% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Half of Cattle Creek commutes less than 12 miles
About 26% 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 Cattle Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Cattle Creek?
$44,769 (±$15,415) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cattle Creek?
4.8%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cattle Creek?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cattle Creek work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Glenwood Springs (26%, 7 mi), Carbondale (9%, 6 mi), Aspen (6%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Cattle Creek 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 Cattle Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cattle Creek
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.