Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Wiggins has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Wiggins has 418 jobs, against 824 working residents. Jobs and income earn Wiggins C; getting around on foot earns it C. Home is the office for 9% of workers, where Colorado as a whole has 21%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Wiggins in brief
A big share show a job far from home
43% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Wiggins workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 25 across Colorado. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 92 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; with 824 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Wiggins gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Wiggins is better than 34% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Wiggins’ grade up ($91,681, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Wiggins’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wiggins could be anywhere from C− to B.
Miles to work from Wiggins
About 43% 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.
Commuting from Wiggins: about 37 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wiggins workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 757 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.
In and out of Wiggins on a workday
On a workday 745 residents head out to work, 79 work right here, and 339 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Wiggins on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
14% of working residents work in Fort Morgan
Where Wiggins clocks in
14% of workers
10% of workers
4% 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.
What Wiggins’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wiggins, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 418. 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 Wiggins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Wiggins, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wiggins is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Wiggins 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 829 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.7% of Wiggins households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wiggins’ commuters take a bus or train.
Wiggins next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500: 3,137th of 5,656 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Columbine Valley CO | 1,684 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 551 | Coal Creek CO | 2,346 | $134K | 5.4% | 2.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 640 | La Salle CO | 2,304 | $96K | 7.9% | 1.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,135 | Dublin Township OH | 2,056 | $65K | 8.9% | 2.0% | 10% | C |
| 3,136 | Littlerock CA | 1,398 | $57K | 6.9% | 3.3% | 2% | C |
| 3,137 | Wiggins CO | 1,868 | $92K | 11.5% | 1.7% | 10% | C |
| 3,138 | Constantine MI | 1,983 | $73K | 13.3% | 7.3% | 7% | C |
| 3,139 | Weedsport NY | 1,760 | $71K | 16.6% | 1.1% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Wiggins, 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 Wiggins: questions
What is the median household income in Wiggins?
$91,681 (±$7,998) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wiggins?
11.5%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wiggins?
37 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wiggins work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Morgan (14%, 15 mi), Denver (10%, 54 mi), Greeley (4%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wiggins walkable?
Wiggins is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wiggins without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wiggins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wiggins
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.