Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0Bouse has lower household incomes than 90% of U.S. towns
For 10% of workers, the job is at home (Arizona 18%). 8.9% of residents are in poverty, against 12.5% across Arizona. Bouse grades D for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Bouse, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
60% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Bouse’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bouse is Phoenix, 112 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (27) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Bouse is a place people come home to
There are 34 jobs based in Bouse, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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 207 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Bouse
On income, poverty and job access, Bouse is better than 12% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bouse’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.5%) is left out: Bouse’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bouse could be anywhere from D− to C+.
The commute from Bouse, by distance
About 60% 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.
Who commutes out of Bouse, and who commutes in
On a workday 204 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Bouse on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.16 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Bouse clocks in
13% of workers
7% 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.
Inside Bouse’s 34 jobs
34 jobs are based in Bouse.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bouse, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 34. 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 Bouse’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Bouse’s commute takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bouse workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 205 commuters (the 10% 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.
Bouse is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bouse is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 229 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). 3.4% of Bouse households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bouse’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,425th of 4,312: where Bouse ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 644 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,845 | Grand Canyon Village AZ | 1,599 | $73K | 13.2% | 1.5% | 18% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,039 | North Fork AZ | 1,463 | $123K | 13.5% | 5.8% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,423 | Basin WY | 1,334 | $66K | 14.9% | 0.0% | 26% | D |
| 3,424 | Brownington VT | 1,016 | $76K | 21.5% | 4.6% | 1% | D |
| 3,425 | Bouse AZ | 1,203 | $48K | 8.9% | 4.5% | 1% | D |
| 3,426 | Carlsborg WA | 1,231 | $51K | 13.6% | 0.8% | 6% | D |
| 3,427 | Zebulon GA | 1,358 | $50K | 24.3% | 11.0% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Bouse, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
Work in the towns next to Bouse
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bouse workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouse | – | D | B | 19 min | $47,691 |
| Utting | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Utting: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bouse’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 Bouse: questions
What is the median household income in Bouse?
$47,691 (±$13,987) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bouse?
8.9%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bouse?
19 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bouse work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (13%, 112 mi), Salome (7%, 24 mi), Vicksburg (7%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bouse walkable?
Bouse is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bouse without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bouse, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bouse
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.