Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Most of Cokedale commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Cokedale report 12 jobs, against 41 working residents. Hardly any stay in Cokedale for work; outside it, Trinidad is the main destination (20%, 8 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Colorado has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Cokedale
On a workday 41 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 94 people are in Cokedale on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
The towns that employ Cokedale’s residents
Where Cokedale clocks in
20% of workers
17% of workers
5% 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 jobs make up 33% of work in Cokedale
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cokedale, 2013 → 2023: 83 → 12. 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 Cokedale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Cokedale’s commute takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cokedale workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 91 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Cokedale commutes less than 117 miles
About 68% 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 Cokedale: questions
What is the median household income in Cokedale?
$50,952 (±$13,565) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cokedale?
8.7%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cokedale?
30 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cokedale work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Trinidad (20%, 8 mi), Colorado Springs (17%, 119 mi), Greenwood Village (5%, 172 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cokedale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cokedale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cokedale
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.