Photo: Martinoulis · CC BY-SA 3.0Bagdad has 1.9 jobs for every working resident: 842 people commute in to work
Bagdad grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Employers in Bagdad report 1,166 jobs, and 613 of its residents work somewhere. Measured by household income, Bagdad is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Bagdad in brief
Bagdad’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bagdad is Phoenix, 93 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (108) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Bagdad makes and builds things
87% of the jobs based in Bagdad are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bagdad residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 51%. The jobs ↓
The biggest group of Bagdad’s workers comes from Prescott Valley
73 of the people who work in Bagdad live in Prescott Valley, 49 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 613 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Bagdad’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bagdad is better than 33% of U.S. towns, #72 of 140 in Arizona. Household income holds Bagdad’s grade up ($107,885, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bagdad could be anywhere from D to A−.
Where in the region Bagdad works
About 41% 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.
Making and building: 87% of jobs based in Bagdad
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bagdad, 2013 → 2023: 1,003 → 1,166. 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 Bagdad’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Bagdad
Where Bagdad clocks in
18% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
Bagdad on a workday afternoon
On a workday 289 residents head out to work and 324 work right here.
About 3,400 people are in Bagdad on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Commuting from Bagdad: about 9 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bagdad workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,092 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.
Driving is how Bagdad gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bagdad is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns, #80 of 140 in Arizona. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,092 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.9% of Bagdad households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bagdad’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bagdad places 3,083rd of 4,703 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 837 | Kachina Village AZ | 3,212 | $90K | 4.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 850 | St. Johns AZ | 3,336 | $132K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 13% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,222 | Clifton AZ | 3,752 | $78K | 2.5% | 0.8% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,081 | Hunter NY | 2,994 | $67K | 19.6% | 1.0% | 23% | C |
| 3,082 | Schoharie NY | 3,086 | $64K | 12.2% | 3.1% | 19% | C |
| 3,083 | Bagdad AZ | 2,814 | $108K | 10.8% | 6.5% | 53% | C |
| 3,084 | Marin City CA | 3,195 | $69K | 16.1% | 11.3% | 4% | C |
| 3,085 | Bayou L'Ourse LA | 2,132 | $60K | 16.7% | 3.1% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bagdad, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
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 Bagdad: questions
What is the median household income in Bagdad?
$107,885 (±$23,837) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bagdad?
10.8%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bagdad?
9 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bagdad work?
53% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (18%, 93 mi), Prescott (4%, 42 mi), Tempe (2%, 109 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bagdad walkable?
Bagdad is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bagdad without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bagdad, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bagdad
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.