Work & commute · Dolores

Work & commute in Dolores, CO

Most working residents leave Dolores for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Cortez (26%), Durango (8%) and Mountain Village (2%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

29 of 281 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 252 Dolores residents head out of town to work, 29 work right here, and 337 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dolores.

252live here, work elsewhere

29live and work here

337work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dolores goes to work

Cortez9.6 mi away

26%72

Dolores (in town)right here

10%29

Durango37.3 mi away

8%23

Mountain Village47.2 mi away

2%7

Grand Junction111.6 mi away

2%6

Shiprock, NM48.6 mi away

2%6

Mancos14.3 mi away

1%4

Aurora255.9 mi away

1%4

Colorado Springs224.7 mi away

1%4

Greenwood Village243.8 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%123

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Dolores commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

37%

18%

26%

37%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dolores is balanced between jobs and homes

1.30jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Dolores are

366 jobs are based in Dolores. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dolores’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Dolores

366 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Dolores residents hold

281 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+30%

Jobs based in Dolores, 2013 → 2023: 281 → 366. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.