Rio Blanco County 2026 Edition

About 17.9% of jobs in Rio Blanco County are in occupations with high overlap with current AI capabilities; the county's overall exposure score of 29.0 ranks 32nd of Colorado's 64 counties.

Exposure score: 29.0 0–100 scale, employment-weighted
Rank: 32nd of 64 Colorado counties
UI-covered jobs: 2,858 2025 annual average
High-exposure share: 17.9% of jobs, score ≥ 50

Where AI lands first

The five occupation groups with the highest mean exposure scores in Rio Blanco County, with each group's estimated share of county jobs. Scores are on the same 0–100 scale as the county score.

Most-exposed occupation groups in Rio Blanco County
Occupation group	Estimated jobs	Share of county jobs	Mean exposure score
Computer and Mathematical Occupations	66	2.3%	55.5
Business and Financial Operations Occupations	141	4.9%	52.4
Office and Administrative Support Occupations	300	10.5%	52.3
Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	31	1.1%	46.7
Legal Occupations	20	0.7%	45.8

Where AI lands last

The five largest occupation groups among the lower-exposure half of Rio Blanco County's job base — the biggest kinds of local work least overlapping current AI capabilities.

Largest low-exposure occupation groups in Rio Blanco County
Occupation group	Estimated jobs	Share of county jobs	Mean exposure score
Construction and Extraction Occupations	313	10.9%	8.6
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	274	9.6%	31.1
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	206	7.2%	12.3
Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations	169	5.9%	13.8
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations	140	4.9%	11.8

Jobs versus payroll

Measured by payroll rather than headcount, high-exposure work is a larger share of Rio Blanco County's economy — exposure here skews toward higher-wage occupations.

Share of Rio Blanco County's jobs, and of its estimated payroll, in high-exposure occupations (score ≥ 50). Dashed marks show the statewide shares.

High-exposure share of jobs versus payroll, Rio Blanco County and Colorado
Measure	Rio Blanco County	Colorado
Share of jobs in high-exposure occupations	17.9%	23.1%
Share of payroll in high-exposure occupations	19.6%	26.9%

How Rio Blanco County compares

Each gray tick is one of Colorado's 64 counties. Rio Blanco County scores 29.0, ranking 32nd of 64; the median county scores 28.9.

Rio Blanco County exposure score in state context
Rio Blanco County score	29.0
Rank among 64 counties	32nd
Median county score	28.9
Lowest county score	24.7
Highest county score	35.2

Reading these numbers

Heavily imputed estimate 50.8% of Rio Blanco County's employment sits in industry cells that federal data suppresses for confidentiality; those cells were estimated by imputation before scoring. Treat this county's figures as rough estimates.

Exposure is not a job-loss forecast. The score measures how much the tasks that make up a county's jobs overlap with what current AI systems can do. High exposure can mean augmentation, automation, or neither — it marks where change is likely to arrive first, not how it will land.

County occupation mixes are estimated from each county's industry mix using national staffing patterns, not observed directly. Employment counts cover jobs in the unemployment-insurance system ("UI-covered employment"), which excludes most self-employment, gig work, and some farm work.

Employment data 2025 (BLS QCEW annual averages) · Occupation exposure scores: Eloundou et al. (2023), human-rated β · 2026 edition · Full methodology

Cite this page

Colorado AI Exposure Atlas

Martin, Christopher. “AI Job Exposure in Rio Blanco County, Colorado.” Colorado AI Exposure Atlas, 2026 edition. https://coloradoaiexposureatlas.com/county/rio-blanco/.

2026 Edition · Employment data 2025 · Compiled by Christopher Martin

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