Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0For more than half of its working residents, Cimarron Hills is a commute to Colorado Springs
For 12% of workers, the job is at home, against 21% across Colorado. Jobs and income earn Cimarron Hills B−; getting around on foot earns it B+. Only 4% stay in Cimarron Hills for work; outside it, Colorado Springs is the main destination (60%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Cimarron Hills apart on work
More than half of Cimarron Hills works in Colorado Springs
4,735 working residents, 60%, have their main job in Colorado Springs, 3.3 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Cimarron Hills itself. The commute map ↓
Cimarron Hills makes and builds things
46% of the jobs based in Cimarron Hills are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Cimarron Hills residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 13%. The jobs ↓
Most Cimarron Hills residents work close to home
67% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Cimarron Hills has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Cimarron Hills went from 4,055 in 2013 to 5,802 in 2023, +43%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Cimarron Hills
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cimarron Hills is better than 45% of U.S. towns, #115 of 159 in Colorado. Job access by car holds Cimarron Hills’ grade up (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cimarron Hills could be anywhere from C to B+.
Where the trip to work from Cimarron Hills ends
Where Cimarron Hills clocks in
60% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Goods, not services: 46% of the jobs in Cimarron Hills
5,802 jobs are based in Cimarron Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cimarron Hills, 2013 → 2023: 4,055 → 5,802. 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 Cimarron Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Cimarron Hills
About 22% 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.
Cimarron Hills quiets down on a workday
On a workday 7,544 residents head out to work, 324 work right here, and 5,478 people come in from elsewhere.
About 18,000 people are in Cimarron Hills on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.74 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.
Time on the road from Cimarron Hills: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cimarron Hills workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,030 commuters (the 12% 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.
In Cimarron Hills, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cimarron Hills is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #98 of 159 in Colorado. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 6.4% across Colorado.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 10,301 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 69% 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 1.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 59% 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). 4.6% of Cimarron Hills households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Cimarron Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Cimarron Hills is 1,278th of 1,860 U.S. towns of 14,000 to 27,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ada Township MI | 14,769 | $168K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Greenwood Village CO | 15,323 | $149K | 3.1% | 3.3% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 188 | Lone Tree CO | 15,278 | $124K | 4.9% | 3.0% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 210 | Castle Pines CO | 15,583 | $191K | 6.9% | 2.6% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,276 | Oxford MS | 26,773 | $64K | 25.4% | 2.7% | 53% | B− |
| 1,277 | Shepherdsville KY | 14,931 | $71K | 21.5% | 4.2% | 15% | B− |
| 1,278 | Cimarron Hills CO | 19,817 | $81K | 10.6% | 7.0% | 4% | B− |
| 1,279 | Bailey's Crossroads VA | 24,271 | $88K | 22.5% | 8.1% | 3% | B− |
| 1,280 | Truckee CA | 17,278 | $130K | 9.0% | 6.6% | 40% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,860 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Cimarron Hills, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
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 Cimarron Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Cimarron Hills?
$80,808 (±$5,358) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cimarron Hills?
10.6%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cimarron Hills?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cimarron Hills work?
4% work in town.
Is Cimarron Hills walkable?
Cimarron Hills is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 11.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cimarron Hills without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cimarron Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cimarron Hills
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.