McPhaul Suspension Bridge · Photo: Kenneth · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Buckshot earns its living
50% of workers work from home (Arizona 18%). Hardly any work in Buckshot; the top destination outside it is Yuma (39%, 16 miles). There are 40 jobs in Buckshot, and 23 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Buckshot by day and by night
On a workday 23 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 62 people are in Buckshot on a workday afternoon, 38% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Where the people who work in Buckshot live
Where Buckshot clocks in
39% of workers
22% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Buckshot
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Buckshot, 2013 → 2023: 37 → 40. 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 Buckshot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Buckshot
of Buckshot workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3 commuters (the 50% 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 Buckshot commutes less than 16 miles
About 39% 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 Buckshot: questions
What is the poverty rate in Buckshot?
0.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Buckshot work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yuma (39%, 16 mi), Phoenix (22%, 150 mi), Somerton (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Buckshot 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 Buckshot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Buckshot
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.