Leadville National Fish Hatchery · Photo: Footwarrior · CC BY-SA 3.0Leadville North has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
The two grades for Leadville North are B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. There are 116 jobs in Leadville North, against 1,460 working residents. For 8% of workers, the job is at home; Colorado has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Leadville North in brief
Leadville North is a place people come home to
There are 116 jobs based in Leadville North, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Leadville North has about 73 people in it, 95% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% 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 ↓
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 Leadville North
On income, poverty and job access, Leadville North is better than 63% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Leadville North’s grade up (1.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Leadville North’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, Leadville North could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Leadville North by day and by night
On a workday 1,438 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 94 people come in from elsewhere.
About 73 people are in Leadville North on a workday afternoon, 95% 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.
Miles to work from Leadville North
About 38% 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.
12% of working residents work in Leadville
Where Leadville North clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
What Leadville North’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leadville North, 2013 → 2023: 141 → 116. 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 Leadville North’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Leadville North takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leadville North workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 781 commuters (the 9% 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.
Leadville North is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Leadville North is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Leadville North near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 854 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). 1.7% of Leadville North households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Leadville North’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Leadville North is 1,340th among 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
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| 7 | Columbine Valley CO | 1,684 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 356 | Aetna Estates CO | 1,010 | $75K | 1.1% | 0.5% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 632 | Perry Park CO | 1,570 | $158K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,338 | Salisbury NH | 1,516 | $112K | 7.1% | 5.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,339 | Sandwich NH | 1,548 | $141K | 5.2% | 9.9% | 7% | B |
| 1,340 | Leadville North CO | 1,417 | $98K | 1.3% | 2.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,341 | Sun Valley ID | 1,776 | $126K | 6.0% | 0.0% | 25% | B |
| 1,342 | St. Anne IL | 1,122 | $83K | 5.3% | 7.3% | 10% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Leadville North, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
Leadville North and its neighbors: 12% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Leadville North workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leadville North | – | B | B− | 22 min | $97,604 |
| Leadville | 12% | C+ | A | 26 min | $86,350 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Leadville. Darker towns draw more of Leadville North’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Leadville North: questions
What is the median household income in Leadville North?
$97,604 (±$21,540) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leadville North?
1.3%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leadville North?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leadville North work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Leadville (12%, 1 mi), Denver (7%, 84 mi), Copper Mountain (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Leadville North walkable?
Leadville North is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Leadville North without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Leadville North, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leadville North
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.