Work & commute · Wiggins

Work & commute in Wiggins, CO

Most working residents leave Wiggins for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Fort Morgan (14%), Denver (10%) and Greeley (4%). Half commute less than 42 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

79 of 824 working residents

Typical commute

42 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

37 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 745 Wiggins residents head out of town to work, 79 work right here, and 339 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wiggins.

745live here, work elsewhere

79live and work here

339work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wiggins goes to work

Fort Morgan15.4 mi away

14%118

Denver53.6 mi away

10%81

Wiggins (in town)right here

10%79

Greeley39 mi away

4%33

Aurora49.6 mi away

3%28

Commerce City45 mi away

2%19

Colorado Springs100.9 mi away

2%17

Brush23.1 mi away

2%15

Brighton42.2 mi away

2%14

Lakewood66.3 mi away

2%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%406

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

How far

How far Wiggins commutes

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

18%

20%

19%

43%

18%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

43%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wiggins is a commuter town

0.51jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wiggins are

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

Jobs based in Wiggins

418 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Wiggins residents hold

824 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+86%

Jobs based in Wiggins, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 418. 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.