Rio Grande Southern Railroad, Motor No. 2 · Photo: Russell Lee · Public domainFairmount has higher household incomes than 96% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Fairmount A+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Poverty touches 2.9% of residents, against 9.4% across Colorado. Working from home is the commute for 29% of workers, against 21% across Colorado.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Fairmount: the figures worth knowing
Most jobs in Fairmount pay over $40,000 a year
81% of the jobs based in Fairmount pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Fairmount makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Fairmount are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Fairmount residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 15%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Fairmount works from home
29% of Fairmount workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado. 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.
Fairmount’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fairmount is better than 98% of U.S. towns, #7 of 159 in Colorado. Household income is its strongest input ($163,600, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (2.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fairmount could be anywhere from A to A+.
Making and building: 42% of jobs based in Fairmount
2,482 jobs are based in Fairmount.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairmount, 2013 → 2023: 2,799 → 2,482. 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 Fairmount’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Fairmount spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairmount workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,617 commuters (the 29% 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.
Who works in Fairmount, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 4,548 residents head out to work, 117 work right here, and 2,365 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,700 people are in Fairmount on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.53 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.
24% of working residents work in Denver
Where Fairmount clocks in
24% of workers
7% 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.
Miles to work from Fairmount
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.
For most of Fairmount, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fairmount is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #91 of 159 in Colorado. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,063 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 1% 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 2.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 69% 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). 1.2% of Fairmount households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Fairmount’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Fairmount ranks: 95th of 2,792 U.S. towns of 6,900 to 13,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 63 | Cherry Creek CO | 10,721 | $154K | 5.0% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Richfield WI | 11,785 | $144K | 4.8% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 94 | Bloom Township OH | 11,490 | $114K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 4% | A+ |
| 95 | Fairmount CO | 9,902 | $164K | 2.9% | 2.8% | 3% | A+ |
| 96 | Elburn IL | 7,084 | $128K | 5.4% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 97 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Timnath CO | 11,600 | $178K | 4.4% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 136 | Mead CO | 7,042 | $125K | 1.4% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,792 | 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 Fairmount, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
Work next door: 16% of Fairmount’s workers
The biggest share goes to Arvada (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fairmount workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairmount | – | A+ | B+ | 23 min | $163,600 |
| Arvada | 7% | A | A− | 26 min | $117,348 |
| Golden | 5% | B+ | A+ | 24 min | $98,582 |
| Wheat Ridge | 4% | B+ | A | 23 min | $90,564 |
| Applewood | under 3% | A | A− | 23 min | $130,545 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fairmount’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 Fairmount: questions
What is the median household income in Fairmount?
$163,600 (±$17,599) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fairmount?
2.9%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairmount?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fairmount work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (24%, 16 mi), Lakewood (11%, 7 mi), Arvada (7%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fairmount walkable?
Fairmount is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fairmount without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fairmount, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairmount
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.