Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0Gilcrest has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
For 1% of workers, the job is at home; Colorado has 21%. Employers in Gilcrest report 213 jobs for 476 working residents. Getting around Gilcrest on foot earns D−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Gilcrest apart
Gilcrest workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 43 minutes each way, against 25 across Colorado. Over a year that’s about 330 hours of commuting, 138 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Gilcrest workers work from home
Only 1% 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 476 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The trip to work from Gilcrest: about 43 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gilcrest workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 commuters (the 1% 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.
Gilcrest by day and by night
On a workday 469 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 206 people come in from elsewhere.
About 750 people are in Gilcrest on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
14% of working residents work in Greeley
Where Gilcrest clocks in
14% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
In Gilcrest, 51% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gilcrest, 2013 → 2023: 49 → 213. 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 Gilcrest’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Gilcrest’s workers travel
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 Gilcrest, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gilcrest is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Gilcrest near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 486 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 Gilcrest households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gilcrest’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 Gilcrest: questions
What is the poverty rate in Gilcrest?
18.4%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gilcrest?
43 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gilcrest work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greeley (14%, 9 mi), Denver (9%, 36 mi), Fort Collins (5%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gilcrest walkable?
Gilcrest is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gilcrest 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 Gilcrest, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gilcrest
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.