About Divide

Divide is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 3,531 people and just one neighborhood, Divide is the 97th largest community in Colorado.

Unlike some towns , Divide isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Divide are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Divide is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Divide who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.64%), sales jobs (12.19%), and management occupations (9.88%).

Also of interest is that Divide has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In Divide, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.29 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Divide is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Divide isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.92% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Divide doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Divide Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Divide is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 25.82% of adults in Divide have a college degree.

The per capita income in Divide in 2000 was $25,675, which is upper middle income relative to Colorado, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,700 for a family of four. However, Divide contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Divide home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Divide is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Divide include German, Irish, English, French, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, Swedish, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Divide is English.