Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Most of Cope commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Cope has 7 jobs; 18 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Cope; the top destination outside it is Otis (11%, 34 miles). Working from home is the commute for 86% of workers, where Colorado as a whole has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Cope, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 18 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 47 people are in Cope on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 Cope’s working residents head each day
Where Cope clocks in
11% of workers
11% of workers
6% 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: 100% of the jobs in Cope
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Cope’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Cope
of Cope workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2 commuters (the 86% 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 Cope
About 61% 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 Cope: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cope?
20.7%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Cope work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Otis (11%, 34 mi), Greeley (11%, 114 mi), Wray (6%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cope 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 Cope, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cope
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.