Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0Sedalia has 6.0 jobs for every working resident: 499 people commute in to work
Sedalia has 500 jobs; 83 of its residents have a job. Only 1% work in Sedalia; the top destination outside it is Denver (24%, 23 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Colorado 21%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Sedalia
On a workday 82 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 450 people are in Sedalia on a workday afternoon, 1127% 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 Sedalia’s workers come from
Where Sedalia clocks in
24% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 71% of the jobs in Sedalia
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sedalia, 2013 → 2023: 366 → 500. 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 Sedalia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Sedalia
of Sedalia workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 18 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.
How far Sedalia’s workers travel
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 Sedalia: questions
What is the poverty rate in Sedalia?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Sedalia work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (24%, 23 mi), Highlands Ranch (8%, 7 mi), Greenwood Village (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sedalia 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 Sedalia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sedalia
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.