Elbert is a tiny town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 188 people and three associated neighborhoods, Elbert is the 236th largest community in Colorado. Elbert has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns. Housing costs in Elbert are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Elbert is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.19% of the Elbert workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Elbert is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elbert who work in management occupations (25.00%), business and financial occupations (13.89%), and office and administrative support (11.11%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.33% 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. Overall, Elbert’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Elbert has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Elbert has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Elbert than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Elbert may be for you. One downside of living in Elbert, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.93 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small town, Elbert does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Elbert rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.55% of adults 25 and older in Elbert have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Elbert in 2022 was $38,008, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,032 for a family of four. However, Elbert contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Elbert home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elbert residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Elbert include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and European. The most common language spoken in Elbert is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
