Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0Where Grover earns its living
0% of workers work from home (Colorado 21%). Only 2% work in Grover itself; outside it, Fort Collins draws the most (17%, 49 miles). Working residents average 29 minutes each way, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Grover
On a workday 65 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 45 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Grover on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.70 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.
The towns that employ Grover’s residents
Where Grover clocks in
17% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
Grover is a services town
46 jobs are based in Grover.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grover, 2013 → 2023: 48 → 46. 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 Grover’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Grover: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grover workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 58 commuters (the 0% 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.
How many miles Grover commutes
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.
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 Grover: questions
What is the poverty rate in Grover?
44.5%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grover?
29 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grover work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Collins (17%, 49 mi), Denver (9%, 84 mi), Greeley (8%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Grover without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grover, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grover
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.