Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Perry Park’s household incomes are higher than in 96% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income A−: better than 79% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability C: more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 31 minutes each way (Colorado 25, U.S. 26). Only 3% work in Perry Park; the top destination outside it is Denver (20%, 35 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Perry Park, in brief
Perry Park’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Perry Park is Denver, 35 miles away as the crow flies. 20% of working residents (175) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Perry Park is a place people come home to
There are 133 jobs based in Perry Park, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Perry Park has about 840 people in it, 47% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Perry Park works from home
32% of Perry Park workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado. 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 865 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Perry Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Perry Park is better than 79% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Perry Park’s grade up ($158,214, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Perry Park’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, Perry Park could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
Half of Perry Park commutes less than 26 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Perry Park quiets down on a workday
On a workday 837 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 105 people come in from elsewhere.
About 840 people are in Perry Park on a workday afternoon, 47% fewer than live here.
0.15 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Colorado
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perry Park workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 653 commuters (the 31% who work from home are left out). Across Colorado: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
20% of working residents work in Denver
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Perry Park clocks in
20% of workers
14% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
133 jobs are based in Perry Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Perry Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perry Park, 2013 → 2023: 125 → 133. 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.
Most trips from Perry Park start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perry Park is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 953 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Perry Park households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Perry Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Perry Park is 679th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Perry Park, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Columbine Valley CO | 1,684 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 677 | St. Rose Township IL | 1,467 | $107K | 4.3% | 1.4% | 11% | A− |
| 678 | Jennings Township OH | 2,032 | $88K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 7% | A− |
| 679 | Perry Park CO | 1,570 | $158K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| 680 | Heritage Lake IL | 1,522 | $133K | 7.8% | 0.0% | <1% | A− |
| 681 | Louisville NE | 1,419 | $94K | 7.8% | 3.6% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 941 | Nederland CO | 1,463 | $123K | 2.7% | 3.4% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,009 | Idaho Springs CO | 1,842 | $89K | 6.9% | 3.5% | 15% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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.
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 Perry Park: questions
What is the median household income in Perry Park?
$158,214 (±$30,326) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perry Park?
3.2%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perry Park?
31 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 32% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perry Park work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (20%, 35 mi), Castle Rock (14%, 10 mi), Centennial (6%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perry Park walkable?
Perry Park is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perry Park without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Perry Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perry Park
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.