Pitkin County, CO has 11 taxi and limousine businesses in the 2023 County Business Patterns, employing about 84 people.
With only a handful of operators, most local demand is met by a few known names, and word of mouth does most of the selling.
54.5 per cent of operators in Pitkin County, CO employ fewer than five people, against a median of 67.1 per cent across the 348 published county markets.
The market mixes very small operators with a tier of larger ones, so the same county contains businesses with genuinely different problems — coverage at the small end, coordination at the large.
The full distribution: 6 with 1-4 employees and 3 with 10-19 employees.
Pitkin County, CO has 66.09 taxi and limousine businesses per 100,000 residents, against a national median of 2.16.
Operators per head are far above the national midpoint, which is typical of counties serving an airport, a downtown core or a large visitor economy rather than only their own residents.
Within Colorado the median is 2.47 per 100,000, so this county is denser than its state norm.
Annual payroll works out at about $37,726 per employee across the sector in Pitkin County, CO.
That level of payroll means labour, not vehicles, is the dominant cost — so utilisation per paid hour is the number worth managing.