Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Evans works elsewhere
3,331 jobs are based in Evans, against 10,935 working residents. The two grades for Evans are C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Home is the office for 9% of workers, where Colorado as a whole has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Evans stands out on work
Evans and Greeley trade workers both ways
Greeley is the top workplace for Evans residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Evans come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Evans is a place people come home to
There are 3,331 jobs based in Evans, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Evans has about 15,000 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. 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.
Inside Evans’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Evans is better than 37% of U.S. towns, #127 of 159 in Colorado. Job access by car holds Evans’ grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Evans could be anywhere from C to B.
29% of working residents work in Greeley
Where Evans clocks in
29% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
A workday in Evans: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 10,545 residents head out to work, 390 work right here, and 2,941 people come in from elsewhere.
About 15,000 people are in Evans on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
Evans makes things: 32% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Evans, 2013 → 2023: 3,755 → 3,331. 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 Evans’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Evans: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Evans workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,318 commuters (the 9% 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 Evans to work
About 15% 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.
In Evans, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Evans is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #127 of 159 in Colorado. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 6.4% across Colorado.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 11,353 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). 2.7% of Evans households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Evans’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Evans is 1,277th of 1,658 U.S. towns of 16,000 to 30,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 198 | Frederick CO | 18,241 | $129K | 3.3% | 3.4% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 207 | Louisville CO | 20,581 | $147K | 4.5% | 3.6% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 280 | Columbine CO | 25,478 | $131K | 4.3% | 4.1% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,275 | Denison TX | 26,822 | $67K | 15.0% | 4.6% | 22% | C+ |
| 1,276 | Sheridan WY | 20,015 | $63K | 12.5% | 2.9% | 65% | C+ |
| 1,277 | Evans CO | 22,500 | $76K | 13.5% | 7.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,278 | Middle Township NJ | 19,990 | $84K | 12.0% | 6.2% | 29% | C+ |
| 1,279 | Hermiston OR | 19,906 | $67K | 10.1% | 4.9% | 34% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,658 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Evans, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
Next door is work for 29% of Evans
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Greeley. Darker towns draw more of Evans’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 Evans: questions
What is the median household income in Evans?
$75,563 (±$7,078) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Evans?
13.5%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Evans?
26 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Evans work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greeley (29%, 5 mi), Denver (8%, 41 mi), Loveland (6%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Evans walkable?
Evans is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Evans without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Evans, from the people who make the trip.
More of Evans
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.