Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Crawford works elsewhere
8% of workers have no commute at all (Colorado 21%). 17 jobs are based in Crawford, against 114 working residents. Hardly any stay in Crawford for work; outside it, Hotchkiss is the main destination (19%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Crawford: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 114 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 310 people are in Crawford 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.
Commuting out of Crawford: the destinations
Where Crawford clocks in
19% 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.
Most jobs in Crawford are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crawford, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 17. 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 Crawford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes to work from Crawford
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crawford workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 222 commuters (the 8% 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 Crawford
About 31% 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 Crawford: questions
What is the median household income in Crawford?
$58,160 (±$8,993) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crawford?
24.3%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crawford?
31 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crawford work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hotchkiss (19%, 9 mi), Delta (11%, 26 mi), Paonia (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Crawford without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crawford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crawford
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.