Work & commute · Mount Crested Butte

Work & commute in Mount Crested Butte, CO

Most working residents leave Mount Crested Butte for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Crested Butte (32%), Gunnison (4%) and Denver (4%). Half commute less than 4 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

36 of 313 working residents

Typical commute

4 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

13 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 277 Mount Crested Butte residents head out of town to work, 36 work right here, and 645 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Crested Butte.

277live here, work elsewhere

36live and work here

645work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Crested Butte goes to work

Crested Butte2.9 mi away

32%100

Mount Crested Butte (in town)right here

12%36

Gunnison25 mi away

4%13

Denver125.8 mi away

4%13

Breckenridge63.9 mi away

3%10

Avon56 mi away

3%8

Colorado Springs118.3 mi away

2%6

Boulder119.4 mi away

2%5

Keystone73.2 mi away

1%4

Broomfield124.9 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%114

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

How far

How far Mount Crested Butte commutes

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

59%

35%

59%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

35%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Crested Butte is a job hub

2.18jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Crested Butte are

681 jobs are based in Mount Crested Butte. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mount Crested Butte’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mount Crested Butte

681 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)88%

$1,250 a month or less43%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Mount Crested Butte residents hold

313 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−27%

Jobs based in Mount Crested Butte, 2013 → 2023: 938 → 681. 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.