Work & commute · Mancos

Work & commute in Mancos, CO

About one in 5 of Mancos’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Cortez (15%), Durango (11%) and Grand Junction (3%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21%

90 of 426 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 336 Mancos residents head out of town to work, 90 work right here, and 438 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mancos.

336live here, work elsewhere

90live and work here

438work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mancos goes to work

Mancos (in town)right here

21%90

Cortez15.5 mi away

15%62

Durango23.8 mi away

11%48

Grand Junction121.3 mi away

3%13

Denver248.7 mi away

3%11

Dolores14.3 mi away

2%7

Towaoc25.5 mi away

2%7

Farmington, NM41.4 mi away

1%6

Telluride48.6 mi away

1%4

Glenwood Springs160.5 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%174

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

How far

How far Mancos commutes

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

31%

37%

11%

21%

31%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mancos is balanced between jobs and homes

1.24jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mancos are

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

Jobs based in Mancos

528 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less35%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Mancos residents hold

426 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+59%

Jobs based in Mancos, 2013 → 2023: 333 → 528. 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.