First Evangelical Lutheran Church · Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0Fewer people are out of work in Gypsum (0.9%) than in 95% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Gypsum is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns. Gypsum grades B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. At home: 8% of workers have no commute at all (Colorado 21%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Gypsum at work: what stands out
Gypsum has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Gypsum went from 1,317 in 2013 to 2,188 in 2023, +66%. The jobs ↓
Gypsum makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Gypsum are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Gypsum residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Gypsum’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gypsum is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #80 of 159 in Colorado. Unemployment holds Gypsum’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gypsum could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Gypsum makes things: 39% of its jobs are in goods
2,188 jobs are based in Gypsum.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gypsum, 2013 → 2023: 1,317 → 2,188. 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 Gypsum’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Gypsum
On a workday 2,368 residents head out to work, 555 work right here, and 1,633 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.
0.75 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.
18% of working residents work in Eagle
Where Gypsum clocks in
18% 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.
Gypsum’s commute takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gypsum workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,328 commuters (the 8% 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 commute from Gypsum, by distance
About 23% 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.
For most of Gypsum, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gypsum is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns, #154 of 159 in Colorado. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 4,730 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 Gypsum households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gypsum’s commuters take a bus or train.
Gypsum is 1,187th of 2,886 U.S. towns of 6,400 to 12,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Cherry Creek CO | 10,721 | $154K | 5.0% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Fairmount CO | 9,902 | $164K | 2.9% | 2.8% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Timnath CO | 11,600 | $178K | 4.4% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,185 | Hardyston Township NJ | 8,541 | $120K | 7.4% | 5.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,186 | Ravenna Township OH | 9,161 | $64K | 10.8% | 1.1% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,187 | Gypsum CO | 9,212 | $116K | 9.6% | 0.9% | 19% | B+ |
| 1,188 | New Cumberland PA | 7,590 | $82K | 10.3% | 4.0% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,189 | Lebanon ME | 6,801 | $98K | 7.4% | 2.6% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,886 | 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 Gypsum, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
18% of Gypsum works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Eagle. Darker towns draw more of Gypsum’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 Gypsum: questions
What is the median household income in Gypsum?
$115,564 (±$32,604) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gypsum?
9.6%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gypsum?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gypsum work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eagle (18%, 7 mi), Vail (9%, 32 mi), Avon (7%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gypsum walkable?
Gypsum is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gypsum 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 Gypsum, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gypsum
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.