Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Chacra has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Employers in Chacra report 30 jobs, against 191 working residents. Hardly any stay in Chacra for work; outside it, Glenwood Springs is the main destination (29%, 6 miles). 31% of workers work from home; Colorado has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Chacra quiets down on a workday
On a workday 191 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 300 people are in Chacra on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Where people from Chacra work
Where Chacra clocks in
29% of workers
7% 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.
70% of the jobs in Chacra pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chacra, 2013 → 2023: 70 → 30. 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 Chacra’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Chacra: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chacra workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 170 commuters (the 31% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Chacra
About 32% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Chacra: questions
What is the poverty rate in Chacra?
21.7%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chacra?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 31% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chacra work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Glenwood Springs (29%, 6 mi), Denver (7%, 138 mi), Aspen (5%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Chacra without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chacra, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chacra
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.