Derry Mining Site Camp · Photo: Donald J Holmgren · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Twin Lakes commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers, next to 21% for Colorado as a whole. Employers in Twin Lakes report 37 jobs for 141 working residents. Hardly any work in Twin Lakes; the top destination outside it is Denver (9%, 89 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Twin Lakes, and who commutes in
On a workday 141 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 510 people are in Twin Lakes on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Twin Lakes’ working residents head each day
Where Twin Lakes clocks in
9% of workers
9% 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.
Twin Lakes is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Twin Lakes, 2014 → 2024: 8 → 37. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Twin Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 35 minutes from Twin Lakes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Twin Lakes workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 279 commuters (the 9% 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 Twin Lakes goes to work
About 47% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Twin Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Twin Lakes?
$142,601 (±$78,058) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Twin Lakes?
0.5%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Twin Lakes?
35 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Twin Lakes work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (9%, 89 mi), Leadville (9%, 10 mi), Avon (5%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Twin Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Twin Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Twin Lakes
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.