Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Crestone has 2.4 jobs per working resident, and 75 people come in to work
Hardly any stay in Crestone for work; outside it, Moffat is the main destination (13%, 12 miles). There are 75 jobs in Crestone, and 31 of its residents work somewhere. 45% of workers have no commute at all, where Colorado as a whole 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 Crestone
On a workday 31 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 210 people are in Crestone on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Commuting in to Crestone: where workers come from
Where Crestone clocks in
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.
What Crestone’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crestone, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 75. 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 Crestone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Crestone
of Crestone workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 29 commuters (the 45% 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.
How many miles Crestone commutes
About 39% 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 Crestone: questions
What is the poverty rate in Crestone?
44.7%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Crestone work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Moffat (13%, 12 mi), Saguache (6%, 25 mi), Center (6%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Crestone without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 72% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crestone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crestone
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.