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.

Unlike some towns , Wellington isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wellington are a mix of both white- and blue-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.

You will also find that a lot of people in Wellington work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

A relatively large number of people in Wellington telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.06% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Being a small town, Wellington does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Wellington Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Wellington 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: 26.08% of adults in Wellington have a college 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.