Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0North La Junta has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
45 jobs are based in North La Junta, against 185 working residents. Hardly any work in North La Junta itself; outside it, La Junta draws the most (30%, 2 miles). 12% of workers have no commute at all (Colorado 21%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of North La Junta, and who commutes in
On a workday 184 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 44 people come in from elsewhere.
About 400 people are in North La Junta on a workday afternoon, 26% 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 North La Junta work
Where North La Junta clocks in
30% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in North La Junta: what the 45 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in North La Junta, 2013 → 2023: 28 → 45. 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 North La Junta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long North La Junta spends getting to work: about 11 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of North La Junta workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 245 commuters (the 12% 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 far North La Junta’s workers travel
About 43% 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 North La Junta: questions
What is the median household income in North La Junta?
$47,941 (±$17,079) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in North La Junta?
5.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from North La Junta?
11 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in North La Junta work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are La Junta (30%, 2 mi), Colorado Springs (6%, 90 mi), Pueblo (4%, 62 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around North La Junta without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from North La Junta, from the people who make the trip.
More of North La Junta
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.