Work & commute · Eads

Work & commute in Eads, CO

About one in 3 of Eads’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Lamar (5%), Colorado Springs (3%) and Denver (3%). Half commute less than 29 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

32%

95 of 296 working residents

Typical commute

29 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

14 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 201 Eads residents head out of town to work, 95 work right here, and 200 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Eads.

201live here, work elsewhere

95live and work here

200work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Eads goes to work

Eads (in town)right here

32%95

Lamar29.4 mi away

5%15

Colorado Springs110.1 mi away

3%9

Denver143.2 mi away

3%8

Aurora134.3 mi away

2%7

Sheridan Lake26.3 mi away

2%6

Fort Collins187.7 mi away

2%5

Hugo58.6 mi away

1%4

Cheyenne Wells32.8 mi away

1%4

Lakewood151 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%139

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

How far

How far Eads commutes

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

36%

16%

44%

36%Under 10 mi

4%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

44%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Eads is balanced between jobs and homes

1.00jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Eads are

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

Jobs based in Eads

295 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Eads residents hold

296 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month52%

−6%

Jobs based in Eads, 2013 → 2023: 314 → 295. 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.