Photo: The original uploader was Nationalparks at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5A job hub: Divide has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 91 people come in to work
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 21% across Colorado. There are 94 jobs in Divide; 49 of its residents have a job. Only 6% stay in Divide for work; outside it, Colorado Springs is the main destination (27%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Divide by day
On a workday 46 residents head out to work and 3 work right here.
About 130 people are in Divide on a workday afternoon, 52% 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.
The daily trip into Divide
Where Divide clocks in
27% of workers
16% of workers
10% 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 Divide’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Divide, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 94. 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 Divide’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Divide
of Divide workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 50 commuters (the 0% 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.
The distance from Divide to work
About 24% 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 Divide: questions
What is the poverty rate in Divide?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Divide work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Colorado Springs (27%, 22 mi), Woodland Park (16%, 7 mi), Denver (10%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Divide 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 Divide, from the people who make the trip.
More of Divide
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.