Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0At 1.5%, unemployment in Eagle is lower than in 90% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are higher than in 84% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Eagle are B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 4% of workers have no commute at all, against 21% across Colorado.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Eagle at work: what stands out
Eagle has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Eagle went from 2,021 in 2013 to 3,790 in 2023, +88%. The jobs ↓
Few Eagle workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Eagle’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eagle is better than 74% of U.S. towns, #65 of 159 in Colorado. Unemployment holds Eagle’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eagle could be anywhere from B− to A.
69% of the jobs in Eagle pay over $3,333 a month
3,790 jobs are based in Eagle.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eagle, 2013 → 2023: 2,021 → 3,790. 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 Eagle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes to work from Eagle
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eagle workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,802 commuters (the 4% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Eagle
On a workday 2,260 residents head out to work, 652 work right here, and 3,138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,200 people are in Eagle on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
11% of working residents work in Avon
Where Eagle clocks in
11% 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.
The commute from Eagle, by distance
About 27% 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 commute in Eagle is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eagle is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #101 of 159 in Colorado. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,943 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). 4.3% of Eagle households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eagle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,122 U.S. towns of 5,100 to 9,800, Eagle comes 981st on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Todd Creek CO | 5,379 | $194K | 0.5% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 146 | Mead CO | 7,042 | $125K | 1.4% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 149 | Stonegate CO | 8,906 | $159K | 3.2% | 3.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 979 | Buchanan WI | 6,793 | $105K | 2.3% | 8.9% | 4% | B+ |
| 980 | Barbecue NC | 5,910 | $79K | 3.9% | 1.5% | 1% | B+ |
| 981 | Eagle CO | 7,280 | $110K | 6.8% | 1.5% | 22% | B+ |
| 982 | New Gloucester ME | 5,964 | $109K | 4.3% | 5.1% | 8% | B+ |
| 983 | Rootstown Township OH | 8,691 | $89K | 7.0% | 3.7% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,122 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Eagle, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
Around Eagle: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Gypsum (5%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Eagle’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Eagle: questions
What is the median household income in Eagle?
$110,398 (±$11,619) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eagle?
6.8%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eagle?
21 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eagle work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Avon (11%, 16 mi), Vail (10%, 24 mi), Edwards (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eagle walkable?
Eagle is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eagle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eagle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eagle
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.