Old Presbyterian Church · Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and earnings in Bluewater, and the trip to work
Bluewater has 262 jobs; 279 of its residents have a job. 1% of workers have no commute at all; Arizona has 18%. The average commute takes 9 minutes each way, where Arizona has 25 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Bluewater apart on work
Bluewater and Parker trade workers both ways
Parker is the top workplace for Bluewater residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Bluewater come from (36% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Bluewater are quick
The average trip to work takes 9 minutes, against 25 across Arizona. That’s about 123 hours a year less on the road than the typical Arizona worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Bluewater than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Bluewater fell from 582 in 2013 to 262 in 2023, −55%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 279 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
23% of working residents work in Parker
Where Bluewater clocks in
23% of workers
8% 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.
The trip to work from Bluewater: about 9 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bluewater workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 372 commuters (the 1% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Bluewater
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bluewater, 2013 → 2023: 582 → 262. 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 Bluewater’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Bluewater
On a workday 262 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 245 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.94 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Short hops and long hauls from Bluewater
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.
23% of Bluewater works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Parker. Darker towns draw more of Bluewater’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 Bluewater: questions
What is the median household income in Bluewater?
$68,750 (±$23,492) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bluewater?
16.3%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bluewater?
9 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bluewater work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Parker (23%, 10 mi), Phoenix (8%, 131 mi), Lake Havasu City (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bluewater without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bluewater, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bluewater
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.