Work & commute · Las Animas

Work & commute in Las Animas, CO

Most working residents leave Las Animas for work: only 19% work in town. The top destinations are La Junta (8%), Colorado Springs (5%) and Lamar (4%). Half commute less than 33 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19%

121 of 632 working residents

Typical commute

33 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 511 Las Animas residents head out of town to work, 121 work right here, and 308 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Las Animas.

511live here, work elsewhere

121live and work here

308work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Las Animas goes to work

Las Animas (in town)right here

19%121

La Junta18.7 mi away

8%49

Colorado Springs99.8 mi away

5%30

Lamar33.1 mi away

4%28

Wiley28 mi away

4%26

Denver147 mi away

4%24

Pueblo76.6 mi away

3%20

McClave20.7 mi away

2%15

Aurora139 mi away

2%13

Thornton157.7 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%298

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

How far

How far Las Animas commutes

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

25%

16%

17%

42%

25%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

42%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Las Animas is a commuter town

0.68jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.68 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Las Animas are

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

Jobs based in Las Animas

429 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Las Animas residents hold

632 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month45%

−17%

Jobs based in Las Animas, 2013 → 2023: 517 → 429. 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.