Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Wellington works elsewhere
There are 1,312 jobs in Wellington; 5,301 of its residents have a job. Wellington grades B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Wellington is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Wellington: the gist
Wellington has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Wellington went from 679 in 2013 to 1,312 in 2023, +93%. The jobs ↓
Wellington and Fort Collins trade workers both ways
Fort Collins is the top workplace for Wellington residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Wellington come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Wellington is a place people come home to
There are 1,312 jobs based in Wellington, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Wellington has about 8,200 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Wellington workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 25 across Colorado. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Wellington’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wellington is better than 54% of U.S. towns, #103 of 159 in Colorado. Household income holds Wellington’s grade up ($107,017, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wellington could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
What Wellington’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wellington, 2013 → 2023: 679 → 1,312. 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 Wellington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
35% of working residents work in Fort Collins
Where Wellington clocks in
35% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Wellington
On a workday 4,970 residents head out to work, 331 work right here, and 981 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,200 people are in Wellington on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Getting to work from Wellington takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wellington workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,857 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.
How far it is to work from Wellington
About 25% 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.
Getting around Wellington: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wellington is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #138 of 159 in Colorado. Both inputs place Wellington near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,989 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). 3.4% of Wellington households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Wellington’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,151 U.S. towns of 9,000 to 16,000, Wellington comes 1,234th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
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| 56 | Cherry Creek CO | 10,721 | $154K | 5.0% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Fairmount CO | 9,902 | $164K | 2.9% | 2.8% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Timnath CO | 11,600 | $178K | 4.4% | 0.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,232 | Waverly IA | 10,561 | $80K | 10.9% | 3.5% | 32% | B− |
| 1,233 | St. Joseph Township MI | 9,703 | $95K | 8.6% | 6.8% | 7% | B− |
| 1,234 | Wellington CO | 12,169 | $107K | 8.8% | 6.5% | 6% | B− |
| 1,235 | Snohomish WA | 10,719 | $87K | 6.7% | 10.6% | 9% | B− |
| 1,236 | German Flatts NY | 11,969 | $68K | 13.7% | 2.0% | 14% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,151 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Wellington, 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 Wellington: questions
What is the median household income in Wellington?
$107,017 (±$4,808) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wellington?
8.8%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wellington?
31 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wellington work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Collins (35%, 11 mi), Loveland (7%, 20 mi), Denver (6%, 65 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wellington walkable?
Wellington is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wellington without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wellington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wellington
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.