Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Colorado Springs for about two in five of Ellicott’s working residents
Getting around Ellicott on foot earns D−. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers; Colorado has 21%. Only 3% work in Ellicott itself; outside it, Colorado Springs draws the most (44%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Ellicott: the gist
44% of Ellicott works in Colorado Springs
200 working residents, 44%, have their main job in Colorado Springs, 21 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Ellicott itself. The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Ellicott
63% of Ellicott residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Ellicott pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Few Ellicott workers work from home
Only 3% 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; with 457 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The places Ellicott commutes to
Where Ellicott clocks in
44% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Inside Ellicott’s 339 jobs
339 jobs are based in Ellicott.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ellicott, 2013 → 2023: 190 → 339. 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 Ellicott’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Ellicott, about 33 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ellicott workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 582 commuters (the 3% 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.
Ellicott by day and by night
On a workday 445 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 327 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.74 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Ellicott commutes less than 24 miles
About 32% 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 Ellicott is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 599 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). 0.0% of Ellicott households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ellicott’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Ellicott: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ellicott?
52.6%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ellicott?
33 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ellicott work?
3% work in town.
Is Ellicott walkable?
Ellicott is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ellicott without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ellicott, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ellicott
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.