Photo: Rudi Riet from Washington, DC, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Copper Mountain has 3.9 jobs for every working resident: 1,434 people commute in to work
Copper Mountain has 1,518 jobs, against 388 working residents. About one in five stay in Copper Mountain for work; outside it, Frisco is the main destination (9%, 9 miles). 12% of workers have no commute at all; Colorado has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Copper Mountain
Copper Mountain fills up on a workday
Copper Mountain has 1,518 jobs, 3.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,500 people are in town, 4 times the 350 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Copper Mountain are quick
The average trip to work takes 7 minutes, against 25 across Colorado. That’s about 138 hours a year less on the road than the typical Colorado worker. Time on the road ↓
Nearly all the work in Copper Mountain is services
99% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 0% are in factories, building or farms. 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; with 388 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Copper Mountain’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 304 residents head out to work and 84 work right here.
About 1,500 people are in Copper Mountain on a workday afternoon, 320% more 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.
Getting to work from Copper Mountain takes about 7 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Copper Mountain workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 281 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Copper Mountain
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Copper Mountain, 2013 → 2023: 1,336 → 1,518. 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 Copper Mountain’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Copper Mountain live
Where Copper Mountain clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Copper Mountain
About 37% 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 Copper Mountain: questions
What is the poverty rate in Copper Mountain?
7.1%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Copper Mountain?
7 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Copper Mountain work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Frisco (9%, 9 mi), Denver (9%, 73 mi), Breckenridge (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Copper Mountain without a car?
10% 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 Copper Mountain, from the people who make the trip.
More of Copper Mountain
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.