Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Mulford works elsewhere
Mulford has 12 jobs for 131 working residents. Hardly any work in Mulford itself; outside it, Carbondale draws the most (19%, 3 miles). Commuters spend 18 minutes getting to work on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mulford quiets down on a workday
On a workday 131 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Mulford on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 places Mulford commutes to
Where Mulford clocks in
15% 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.
Goods, not services: 42% of the jobs in Mulford
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mulford, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 12. 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 Mulford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Mulford, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mulford workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 212 commuters (the 18% 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.
The commute from Mulford, by distance
About 24% 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.
Around Mulford: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mulford workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mulford | – | — | — | 18 min | $141,036 |
| Catherine | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Catherine: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mulford’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 Mulford: questions
What is the median household income in Mulford?
$141,036 (±$36,834) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mulford?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mulford?
18 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mulford work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carbondale (19%, 3 mi), Glenwood Springs (15%, 14 mi), Aspen (9%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mulford 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 Mulford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mulford
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.