Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Laporte has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
33% of workers work from home; Colorado has 21%. 410 jobs are based in Laporte; 1,010 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Laporte is better than 65% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Laporte, in brief
The better-paid jobs are outside Laporte
68% of Laporte residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 34% of the jobs based in Laporte pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Laporte and Fort Collins trade workers both ways
Fort Collins is the top workplace for Laporte residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Laporte come from (29% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A lot of Laporte works from home
33% of Laporte workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Laporte pay little
32% of the jobs based in Laporte pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. 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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Laporte
Unemployment holds Laporte’s grade up (2.1%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Laporte could be anywhere from C− to A.
What Laporte’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Laporte, 2013 → 2023: 360 → 410. 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 Laporte’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Laporte ends
Where Laporte clocks in
33% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Each way, about 27 minutes from Laporte
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Laporte workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 747 commuters (the 33% 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.
How many people are in Laporte by day
On a workday 972 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 372 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Laporte on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
The commute from Laporte, by distance
About 28% 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.
Most trips from Laporte start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,116 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). 4.3% of Laporte households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Laporte’s commuters take a bus or train.
Laporte places 1,487th of 6,085 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Columbine Valley CO | 1,684 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 564 | Coal Creek CO | 2,346 | $134K | 5.4% | 2.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 656 | La Salle CO | 2,304 | $96K | 7.9% | 1.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,485 | Washington Township OH | 1,685 | $80K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,486 | Westford WI | 1,312 | $93K | 7.1% | 3.3% | <1% | B |
| 1,487 | Laporte CO | 1,771 | $87K | 10.6% | 2.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,488 | Durham OR | 1,904 | $81K | 13.9% | 1.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,489 | Butler Township IN | 1,759 | $81K | 13.2% | 1.9% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Laporte, 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 Laporte: questions
What is the median household income in Laporte?
$87,313 (±$40,467) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Laporte?
10.6%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Laporte?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 33% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Laporte work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Collins (33%, 8 mi), Loveland (6%, 16 mi), Denver (6%, 62 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Laporte walkable?
Laporte is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Laporte without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Laporte, from the people who make the trip.
More of Laporte
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.