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 a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country. 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.Elbert is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.37% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Elbert is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elbert who work in business and financial occupations (18.95%), office and administrative support (17.89%), and management occupations (17.89%). Also of interest is that Elbert has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.58% 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. Elbert’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. 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. In Elbert, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.52 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. 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, Elbert is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.98% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Elbert in 2022 was $40,698, 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 $162,792 for a family of four. However, Elbert contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Elbert is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. 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, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Elbert include Irish, German, Scots-Irish, English, and European. The most common language spoken in Elbert is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
