Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Maysville works elsewhere
Home is the office for 88% of workers, against 21% across Colorado. Maysville has 22 jobs, and 80 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Maysville; the top destination outside it is Salida (25%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Maysville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 80 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Maysville on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The places Maysville commutes to
Where Maysville clocks in
25% of workers
8% 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.
In Maysville, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maysville, 2014 → 2024: 9 → 22. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Maysville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Maysville
of Maysville workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 22 commuters (the 88% 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.
Maysville’s commute, mile by mile
About 49% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Maysville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Maysville?
20.9%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Maysville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salida (25%, 12 mi), Denver (8%, 112 mi), Poncha Springs (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Maysville 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 Maysville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maysville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.