Work & commute · Manitou Springs

Work & commute in Manitou Springs, CO

Most working residents leave Manitou Springs for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Colorado Springs (51%), Denver (6%) and Aurora (2%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

282 of 1,967 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,685 Manitou Springs residents head out of town to work, 282 work right here, and 1,245 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Manitou Springs.

1,685live here, work elsewhere

282live and work here

1,245work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Manitou Springs goes to work

Colorado Springs8.2 mi away

51%1,002

Manitou Springs (in town)right here

14%282

Denver62.5 mi away

6%125

Aurora59.8 mi away

2%45

Pueblo43.8 mi away

1%26

Greenwood Village52.4 mi away

1%23

Lakewood59.2 mi away

1%23

Centennial50.7 mi away

1%20

Woodland Park12.5 mi away

1%18

Westminster71.1 mi away

1%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

20%390

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

How far

How far Manitou Springs commutes

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

62%

12%

22%

62%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Manitou Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

0.78jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Manitou Springs are

1,527 jobs are based in Manitou Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Manitou Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Manitou Springs

1,527 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Manitou Springs residents hold

1,967 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+37%

Jobs based in Manitou Springs, 2013 → 2023: 1,117 → 1,527. 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.