Colorado Springs

City Commute Profile

Colorado Springs, CO

Where Colorado Springs’s 201,387 resident workers go each day — 62.6% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Denver.

ColoradoLODES 2023 data
65
Commute Score

65 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Colorado Springs at a glance
Employed Residents
201,387
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
50.1mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
62.6%
Share working within the area
Work from home
17.6%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Denver
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Colorado Springs proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Colorado Springs commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Colorado Springs

201,387 commutes, one dot at a time

Colorado Springs

Where 201,387 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Colorado Springs, by worker count.

1Colorado Springs0.0 mi126,090
2Denver59.9 mi11,949
3Aurora56.1 mi5,078
4Cimarron Hills4.5 mi2,950
5Centennial50.1 mi2,392
6Fountain12.8 mi2,280
7Lakewood60.1 mi2,052
8Pueblo42.7 mi1,995

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Colorado Springs.

1Colorado Springs0.0 mi126,090
2Security-Widefield9.3 mi8,588
3Denver59.9 mi5,671
4Fountain12.8 mi5,631
5Cimarron Hills4.5 mi5,030
6Pueblo42.7 mi4,620
7Aurora56.1 mi3,886
8Black Forest13.2 mi3,402

Top industries

The sectors that employ Colorado Springs’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance18.9%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services12.1%
AFAccommodation and Food Services11.7%
RTRetail Trade10.7%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.7%
FIFinance and Insurance5.6%
COConstruction5.2%
EDEducational Services4.6%
MFManufacturing4.6%

Colorado Springs city profile

Who lives in Colorado Springs — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
487,887
Median age
35.7yrs
Median household income
$84,818
Median home value
$452,600
Median gross rent
$1,648/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
42.7%
Poverty rate
9.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Colorado Springs

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

16 providers · 5 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps98% of homes
2 Gbps93%
5 Gbps60%
8 Gbps52%
See all internet providers in Colorado Springs

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).