Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Jobs and earnings in Norwood, and the trip to work
Home is the office for 27% of workers; Colorado has 21%. About one in five work in Norwood itself; outside it, Telluride draws the most (21%, 29 miles). Commuters spend 32 minutes getting to work on average, next to 25 for Colorado and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Norwood in brief
Norwood’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Norwood is Telluride, 29 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (50) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Norwood workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 25 across Colorado. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 235 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The distance from Norwood to work
About 29% 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.
A commute of about 32 minutes in Norwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Norwood workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 189 commuters (the 27% 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.
Who works in Norwood, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 194 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 181 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.94 per resident).
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 Norwood goes to work
Where Norwood clocks in
21% of workers
15% of workers
3% 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 Norwood’s employers do
222 jobs are based in Norwood.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Norwood, 2013 → 2023: 210 → 222. 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 Norwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Norwood: questions
What is the median household income in Norwood?
$57,417 (±$8,948) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Norwood?
13.8%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Norwood?
32 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Norwood work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Telluride (21%, 29 mi), Mountain Village (15%, 27 mi), Denver (3%, 215 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Norwood without a car?
7% 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 Norwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Norwood
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.