Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Colona has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Employers in Colona report 3 jobs; 19 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Colona itself; outside it, Ridgway draws the most (16%, 12 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Colorado has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Colona by day and by night
On a workday 19 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 92 people are in Colona on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 Colona work
Where Colona clocks in
16% of workers
11% of workers
11% 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.
Colona is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Colona, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 3. 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 Colona’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Colona
of Colona workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 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.
The commute from Colona, by distance
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 Colona: questions
What is the median household income in Colona?
$128,750 (±$25,597) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Colona?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Colona work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ridgway (16%, 12 mi), Mountain Village (11%, 28 mi), Littleton (11%, 172 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Colona 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 Colona, from the people who make the trip.
More of Colona
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.