Blackwater has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
For 2% of workers, the job is at home; Arizona has 18%. Employers in Blackwater report 71 jobs; 138 of its residents have a job. Blackwater grades D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Blackwater, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 138 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 71 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
17% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Blackwater clocks in
17% of workers
9% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Blackwater
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blackwater, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 71. 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 Blackwater’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way for Blackwater’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blackwater workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 631 commuters (the 2% 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 Blackwater
About 29% 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.
Getting around Blackwater: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Blackwater is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Blackwater near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 645 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 27.1% of Blackwater households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Blackwater’s commuters take a bus or train.
Blackwater and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Blackwater workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwater | – | — | D− | 21 min | — |
| Coolidge | under 3% | D | B− | 25 min | $67,023 |
| Florence | under 3% | C | C+ | 31 min | $79,644 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Blackwater’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Blackwater: questions
What is the poverty rate in Blackwater?
31.9%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blackwater?
21 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blackwater work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (17%, 47 mi), Casa Blanca (17%, 20 mi), Sacaton (9%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Blackwater walkable?
Blackwater is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 1.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blackwater without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 27% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blackwater, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blackwater
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.