Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Julesburg has lower household incomes than 94% of U.S. towns
3% of workers have no commute at all, where Colorado as a whole has 21%. 17.5% of residents are in poverty, next to 9.4% for Colorado as a whole. Jobs and income earn Julesburg D−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Julesburg: the figures worth knowing
A big share show a job far from home
45% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Commutes from Julesburg are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 25 across Colorado. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical Colorado worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Julesburg than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Julesburg fell from 510 in 2013 to 314 in 2023, −38%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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; with 478 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Julesburg’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Julesburg is better than 2% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Julesburg’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Julesburg’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Julesburg could be anywhere from D− to D.
Half of Julesburg commutes less than 30 miles
About 45% 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.
How long Julesburg spends getting to work: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Julesburg workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 567 commuters (the 3% 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.
What Julesburg’s employers do
314 jobs are based in Julesburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Julesburg, 2013 → 2023: 510 → 314. 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 Julesburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Julesburg
On a workday 366 residents head out to work, 112 work right here, and 202 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Julesburg on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.66 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.
7% of working residents work in Ovid
Where Julesburg clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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.
Julesburg is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Julesburg is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 7.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 584 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.5% of Julesburg households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Julesburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Julesburg compares with U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 245 | Aetna Estates CO | 1,010 | $75K | 1.1% | 0.5% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 440 | Perry Park CO | 1,570 | $158K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 612 | Nederland CO | 1,463 | $123K | 2.7% | 3.4% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,088 | Frost Township MI | 1,065 | $47K | 18.6% | 11.4% | 1% | D− |
| 4,089 | Spring Glen UT | 1,157 | $52K | 28.5% | 2.0% | <1% | D− |
| 4,090 | Julesburg CO | 1,217 | $44K | 17.5% | 3.7% | 23% | D− |
| 4,091 | Glenns Ferry ID | 1,256 | $52K | 23.2% | 1.1% | 27% | D− |
| 4,092 | Cannelton IN | 1,488 | $29K | 39.8% | 12.0% | 6% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Julesburg, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
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 Julesburg: questions
What is the median household income in Julesburg?
$43,500 (±$13,282) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Julesburg?
17.5%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Julesburg?
13 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Julesburg work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ovid (7%, 7 mi), Denver (5%, 162 mi), Holyoke (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Julesburg walkable?
Julesburg is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Julesburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Julesburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Julesburg
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.