97% of Colorado Acres’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Colorado Acres for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Laredo (62%), San Antonio (8%) and Carrizo Springs (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.
What kind of work town is Colorado Acres?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
62% of working residents work in Laredo
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Colorado Acres clocks in
62% of workers
8% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Colorado Acres fills up on a workday
On a workday 38 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 54 people come in from elsewhere.
About 67 people are in Colorado Acres on a workday afternoon, 31% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Colorado Acres commutes less than 19 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 28% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
95% of the jobs in Colorado Acres pay over $3,333 a month
55 jobs are based in Colorado Acres. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Colorado Acres’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
About 29 minutes each way, longer than most of Texas
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Colorado Acres workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Colorado Acres and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Colorado Acres’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Colorado Acres
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Colorado Acres, from the people who make the trip.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.