Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Sedgwick
6% of workers work from home, next to 21% for Colorado as a whole. Only 4% work in Sedgwick; the top destination outside it is Julesburg (35%, 14 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 26 minutes, 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
Sedgwick on a workday afternoon
On a workday 44 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 50 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 (1.13 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.
Out of Sedgwick to work: where people go
Where Sedgwick clocks in
35% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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 Sedgwick: what the 52 are
52 jobs are based in Sedgwick.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sedgwick, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 52. 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 Sedgwick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes to work from Sedgwick
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sedgwick workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 92 commuters (the 6% 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 it is to work from Sedgwick
About 32% 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 Sedgwick: questions
What is the median household income in Sedgwick?
$53,750 (±$45,791) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sedgwick?
10.4%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sedgwick?
26 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sedgwick work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Julesburg (35%, 14 mi), Sidney (9%, 27 mi), Holyoke (7%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sedgwick without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sedgwick, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sedgwick
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.