About Wellington

Wellington is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 4,853 people and just one neighborhood, Wellington is the 82nd largest community in Colorado.

Wellington is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wellington is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wellington who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.46%), management occupations (7.78%), and sales jobs (5.51%).

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

Another important characteristic of Wellington is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 9.06% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Wellington is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Wellington Information and Demographics

The education level of Wellington citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 26.08% of adults in Wellington have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Wellington in 2000 was $21,540, which is upper middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,160 for a family of four. However, Wellington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wellington home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Wellington is White, followed by Native American. Wellington also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.47% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Wellington include German, English, Irish, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Wellington is English. Some people also speak Spanish.