Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Hudson
2% of workers have no commute at all; Colorado has 21%. Jobs and income earn Hudson C+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Only 4% work in Hudson itself; outside it, Denver draws the most (16%, 28 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Hudson in brief
Hudson has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Hudson went from 322 in 2013 to 630 in 2023, +96%. The jobs ↓
Hudson’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hudson is Denver, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (151) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Hudson workers work from home
Only 3% 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 925 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Hudson earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hudson is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Hudson’s grade up ($81,250, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (18.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Hudson’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hudson could be anywhere from C− to A.
What work there is in Hudson: 630 jobs
630 jobs are based in Hudson.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hudson, 2013 → 2023: 322 → 630. 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 Hudson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Hudson
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.
About 28 minutes each way for Hudson’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hudson workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 897 commuters (the 2% 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.
A workday in Hudson: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 889 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 594 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Hudson on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.68 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.
Out of Hudson to work: where people go
Where Hudson clocks in
16% of workers
5% 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.
Most of Hudson commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hudson is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 920 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). 5.1% of Hudson households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Hudson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, Hudson comes 2,771st on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Columbine Valley CO | 1,684 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 737 | Perry Park CO | 1,570 | $158K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,018 | Nederland CO | 1,463 | $123K | 2.7% | 3.4% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,769 | Fairfield Beach OH | 1,432 | $49K | 8.1% | 6.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,770 | Level Plains AL | 1,838 | $77K | 12.1% | 4.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,771 | Hudson CO | 1,621 | $81K | 18.4% | 4.1% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,772 | East Dubuque IL | 1,457 | $68K | 12.2% | 2.2% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,773 | Haven KS | 1,169 | $59K | 9.1% | 4.5% | 11% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Hudson, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
Hudson and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Hudson’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 Hudson: questions
What is the median household income in Hudson?
$81,250 (±$21,438) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hudson?
18.4%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hudson?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hudson work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (16%, 28 mi), Commerce City (5%, 18 mi), Brighton (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hudson walkable?
Hudson is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hudson without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hudson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hudson
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.