Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0More people are out of work in Strasburg (9.1%) than in 92% of U.S. towns
Only 6% stay in Strasburg for work; outside it, Denver is the main destination (20%, 30 miles). Strasburg grades C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Strasburg apart on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Strasburg
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Strasburg is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #122 of 159 in Colorado. Household income holds Strasburg’s grade up ($117,845, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Strasburg could be anywhere from D to B+.
Miles to work from Strasburg
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.
Who commutes out of Strasburg, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,467 residents head out to work, 91 work right here, and 505 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Strasburg on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
0.38 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.
The places Strasburg commutes to
Where Strasburg clocks in
20% of workers
17% 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.
Goods, not services: 29% of the jobs in Strasburg
596 jobs are based in Strasburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Strasburg, 2013 → 2023: 294 → 596. 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 Strasburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way, longer than most of Colorado
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Strasburg workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,183 commuters (the 19% 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.
In Strasburg, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Strasburg is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #97 of 159 in Colorado. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,457 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 under 0.1 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 Strasburg households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Strasburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,535 U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700, Strasburg comes 2,732nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Stepping Stone CO | 3,137 | $224K | 0.0% | 2.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Sierra Ridge CO | 3,663 | $158K | 0.1% | 2.4% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Genesee CO | 3,778 | $187K | 2.4% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,730 | Grafton ND | 4,023 | $63K | 14.4% | 0.8% | 53% | C+ |
| 2,731 | Orleans Township MI | 2,758 | $63K | 16.0% | 1.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,732 | Strasburg CO | 3,455 | $118K | 13.6% | 9.1% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,733 | Lexington Township MI | 3,452 | $58K | 10.8% | 0.9% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,734 | Rockfish NC | 3,574 | $64K | 15.2% | 3.5% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Strasburg, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
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 Strasburg: questions
What is the median household income in Strasburg?
$117,845 (±$51,416) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Strasburg?
13.6%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Strasburg?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Strasburg work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (20%, 30 mi), Aurora (17%, 21 mi), Centennial (3%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Strasburg walkable?
Strasburg is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Strasburg 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 Strasburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Strasburg
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.