La Junta Gardens has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
3 jobs are based in La Junta Gardens, and 48 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in La Junta Gardens; the top destination outside it is La Junta (21%, 2 miles). 0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 21% for Colorado as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes La Junta Gardens
On a workday 48 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 67 people are in La Junta Gardens on a workday afternoon, 40% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from La Junta Gardens work
Where La Junta Gardens clocks in
21% of workers
13% of workers
8% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in La Junta Gardens
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 La Junta Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in La Junta Gardens
of La Junta Gardens workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 33 commuters (the 0% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from La Junta Gardens
About 52% 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 La Junta Gardens: questions
What is the median household income in La Junta Gardens?
$83,701 (±$519) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in La Junta Gardens?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in La Junta Gardens work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are La Junta (21%, 2 mi), Colorado Springs (13%, 88 mi), Denver (8%, 141 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around La Junta Gardens without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from La Junta Gardens, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Junta Gardens
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.