Photo: Chris English · CC BY-SA 3.0Alpine has 3.4 jobs for every working resident: 93 people commute in to work
0% of workers work from home; Arizona has 18%. Alpine has 93 jobs, and 27 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Alpine itself; outside it, Springerville draws the most (22%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Alpine, and who commutes in
On a workday 27 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 120 people are in Alpine on a workday afternoon, 120% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Alpine’s workforce comes from
Where Alpine clocks in
22% of workers
15% of workers
11% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Alpine is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Alpine, 2013 → 2023: 48 → 93. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Alpine’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Alpine
of Alpine workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 28 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Arizona: 82% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Alpine
About 37% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Alpine: questions
What is the poverty rate in Alpine?
49.1%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Alpine work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springerville (22%, 24 mi), Phoenix (15%, 170 mi), Greer (11%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Alpine without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Alpine, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alpine
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.