About Crested Butte

Crested Butte is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 2,953 people and just one neighborhood, Crested Butte is the 103rd largest community in Colorado.

Crested Butte is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Crested Butte is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Crested Butte who work in sales jobs (17.09%), food service (13.58%), and management occupations (12.82%).

Of important note, Crested Butte is also a town of artists. Crested Butte has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Crested Butte's character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.62% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

For a small town, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Crested Butte. This is not typical for most smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Crested Butte.

One of the benefits of Crested Butte is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 14.28 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Crested Butte 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.

Crested Butte Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Crested Butte is a pretty powerful place. 58.93% of the adults in Crested Butte have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Crested Butte in 2000 was $27,226, which is wealthy relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,904 for a family of four.

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

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