Black Squirrel Creek Bridge · Photo: Thad Roan from Littleton, CO, USA · CC BY 2.0A job hub: Peyton has 2.2 jobs per working resident, and 155 people come in to work
0% of workers have no commute at all; Colorado has 21%. Employers in Peyton report 155 jobs, and 71 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Peyton; the top destination outside it is Colorado Springs (41%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Peyton on a workday afternoon
On a workday 71 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 220 people are in Peyton on a workday afternoon, 60% more 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 Peyton’s workers come from
Where Peyton clocks in
41% of workers
10% 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.
Making and building: 99% of jobs based in Peyton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Peyton, 2013 → 2023: 161 → 155. 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 Peyton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Peyton
of Peyton workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 139 commuters (the 0% 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.
Peyton’s commute, mile by mile
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.
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 Peyton: questions
What is the poverty rate in Peyton?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Peyton work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Colorado Springs (41%, 18 mi), Denver (10%, 54 mi), Cimarron Hills (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Peyton 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 Peyton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Peyton
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.