Photo: Laura Barnes · Public domainA job hub: Ash Fork has 1.8 jobs per working resident, and 119 people come in to work
Home is the office for 20% of workers, against 18% across Arizona. 127 jobs are based in Ash Fork, and 72 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten work in Ash Fork itself; outside it, Phoenix draws the most (13%, 116 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Ash Fork, and who commutes in
On a workday 64 residents head out to work and 8 work right here.
About 510 people are in Ash Fork on a workday afternoon, 12% 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 Ash Fork’s workers come from
Where Ash Fork clocks in
13% of workers
13% of workers
4% 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.
What Ash Fork’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ash Fork, 2013 → 2023: 196 → 127. 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 Ash Fork’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Ash Fork
of Ash Fork workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 49 commuters (the 20% 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.
Half of Ash Fork commutes less than 56 miles
About 51% 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 Ash Fork: questions
What is the median household income in Ash Fork?
$48,563 (±$42,397) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ash Fork?
5.2%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ash Fork work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (13%, 116 mi), Seligman (13%, 22 mi), Flagstaff (4%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ash Fork 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 Ash Fork, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ash Fork
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.