West Plum Bush Creek Bridge · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Most of Deer Trail commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
110 jobs are based in Deer Trail for 519 working residents. Jobs and income earn Deer Trail D; getting around on foot earns it D. 12% of workers work from home (Colorado 21%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Deer Trail apart on work
Deer Trail’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Deer Trail is Denver, 46 miles away as the crow flies. 19% of working residents (100) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Deer Trail workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 41 minutes each way, against 25 across Colorado. Over a year that’s about 314 hours of commuting, 123 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Deer Trail is a place people come home to
There are 110 jobs based in Deer Trail, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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 519 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Deer Trail’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income holds Deer Trail’s grade up ($73,906, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Deer Trail’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Deer Trail could be anywhere from D− to B−.
How far Deer Trail’s workers travel
About 33% 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.
The trip to work from Deer Trail: about 41 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deer Trail workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 553 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.
A workday in Deer Trail: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 508 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 99 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Deer Trail on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
19% of working residents work in Denver
Where Deer Trail clocks in
19% of workers
16% 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.
The kinds of work in Deer Trail
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deer Trail, 2013 → 2023: 97 → 110. 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 Deer Trail’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Deer Trail, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Deer Trail is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 632 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.8% of Deer Trail households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Deer Trail’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Deer Trail ranks 4,926th of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Columbine Valley CO | 1,684 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 564 | Coal Creek CO | 2,346 | $134K | 5.4% | 2.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 656 | La Salle CO | 2,304 | $96K | 7.9% | 1.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,924 | North Vacherie LA | 1,905 | $37K | 18.8% | 6.4% | 7% | D |
| 4,925 | Eureka Springs AR | 2,258 | $38K | 12.2% | 3.3% | 39% | D |
| 4,926 | Deer Trail CO | 1,755 | $74K | 18.8% | 0.6% | 2% | D |
| 4,927 | Corydon IA | 1,711 | $51K | 11.5% | 5.6% | 29% | D |
| 4,928 | Oakland MD | 1,808 | $53K | 17.5% | 3.2% | 28% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Deer Trail, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
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 Deer Trail: questions
What is the median household income in Deer Trail?
$73,906 (±$24,246) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deer Trail?
18.8%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deer Trail?
41 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deer Trail work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (19%, 46 mi), Aurora (16%, 37 mi), Byers (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Deer Trail walkable?
Deer Trail is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Deer Trail without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Deer Trail, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deer Trail
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.