Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Most of El Moro commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
There are 9 jobs in El Moro, against 50 working residents. Working residents average 19 minutes each way, next to 25 for Colorado and 26 for the U.S. Working from home is the commute for 16% of workers, next to 21% for Colorado as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of El Moro
On a workday 50 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in El Moro on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
38% of working residents work in Trinidad
Where El Moro clocks in
38% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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 El Moro’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in El Moro, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 9. 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 El Moro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From El Moro, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of El Moro workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 93 commuters (the 15% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from El Moro
About 44% 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 towns next door employ 38% of El Moro
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Trinidad. Darker towns draw more of El Moro’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 El Moro: questions
What is the median household income in El Moro?
$108,571 (±$16,693) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in El Moro?
4.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from El Moro?
19 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in El Moro work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Trinidad (38%, 6 mi), Branson (4%, 35 mi), Aurora (4%, 171 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around El Moro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from El Moro, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Moro
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.