Kremmling at work: jobs, income and the commute
For jobs and income Kremmling is better than 18% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (A). Working from home is the commute for 10% of workers, against 21% across Colorado. About one in five stay in Kremmling for work; outside it, Denver is the main destination (5%, 82 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Kremmling stands out on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Kremmling
Household income holds Kremmling’s grade up ($77,407, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Kremmling’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, Kremmling could be anywhere from D− to B.
How far it is to work from Kremmling
About 39% 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 497 residents head out to work, 132 work right here, and 512 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 (1.02 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.
Commuting out of Kremmling: the destinations
Where Kremmling clocks in
5% of workers
3% 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 644 jobs based in Kremmling
644 jobs are based in Kremmling.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kremmling, 2013 → 2023: 611 → 644. 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 Kremmling’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way, longer than most of Colorado
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kremmling workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 688 commuters (the 10% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Kremmling
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 763 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). 7.7% of Kremmling households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kremmling’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Kremmling comes 4,545th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Columbine Valley CO | 1,684 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 386 | Aetna Estates CO | 1,010 | $75K | 1.1% | 0.5% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 690 | Perry Park CO | 1,570 | $158K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,543 | Newton Township OH | 1,778 | $75K | 22.0% | 2.0% | 2% | C− |
| 4,544 | Eclectic AL | 1,256 | $50K | 14.0% | 7.2% | 4% | C− |
| 4,545 | Kremmling CO | 1,451 | $77K | 15.4% | 6.7% | 21% | C− |
| 4,546 | Parker City IN | 1,279 | $59K | 18.8% | 6.0% | 3% | C− |
| 4,547 | Lebanon Junction KY | 1,837 | $55K | 19.7% | 9.8% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Kremmling, 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 Kremmling: questions
What is the median household income in Kremmling?
$77,407 (±$24,302) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kremmling?
15.4%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kremmling?
29 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kremmling work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (5%, 82 mi), Granby (3%, 24 mi), Silverthorne (3%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kremmling walkable?
Kremmling is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kremmling without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kremmling, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kremmling
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.