Wupatki National Monument · Photo: SeanMD80 at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.5Cameron has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Employers in Cameron report 7 jobs; 93 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Cameron itself; outside it, Phoenix draws the most (10%, 162 miles). 6% of workers have no commute at all, where Arizona as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Cameron
On a workday 93 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 700 people are in Cameron on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer 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.
Where Cameron goes to work
Where Cameron clocks in
10% of workers
9% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Cameron
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Cameron’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 32 minutes in Cameron
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cameron workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 292 commuters (the 6% 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 many miles Cameron commutes
About 72% 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 Cameron: questions
What is the median household income in Cameron?
$38,750 (±$13,544) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cameron?
26.5%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cameron?
32 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cameron work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (10%, 162 mi), Page (9%, 75 mi), Flagstaff (8%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cameron without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cameron, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cameron
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.