Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0How Ignacio works: jobs, income and commuting
Only 8% stay in Ignacio for work; outside it, Durango is the main destination (25%, 16 miles). For 5% of workers, the job is at home, next to 21% for Colorado as a whole. The trip to work takes 18 minutes on average; Colorado averages 25, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Ignacio: the figures worth knowing
Ignacio and Durango trade workers both ways
Durango is the top workplace for Ignacio residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Ignacio come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Ignacio are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 25 across Colorado. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Colorado worker. 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 259 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Out of Ignacio to work: where people go
Where Ignacio clocks in
25% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
The daily trip from Ignacio: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ignacio workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 565 commuters (the 5% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Ignacio
On a workday 239 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 317 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Most jobs in Ignacio are in services
337 jobs are based in Ignacio.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ignacio, 2013 → 2023: 344 → 337. 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 Ignacio’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ignacio
About 19% 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 Ignacio: questions
What is the median household income in Ignacio?
$67,593 (±$30,041) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ignacio?
16.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ignacio?
18 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ignacio work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Durango (25%, 16 mi), Bayfield (6%, 8 mi), Farmington (4%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ignacio without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ignacio, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ignacio
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.