Households in Canyon Day earn less than those in 98% of U.S. towns
8% of workers work from home, where Arizona as a whole has 18%. Poverty touches 40.2% of residents, next to 12.5% for Arizona as a whole. For jobs and income Canyon Day is near the bottom of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Canyon Day: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Canyon Day is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Canyon Day’s grade.
Unemployment (8.7%) is left out: Canyon Day’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Canyon Day stays D−.
Canyon Day quiets down on a workday
On a workday 154 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Canyon Day on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.00 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 2024, primary jobs.
32% of working residents work in Whiteriver
Where Canyon Day clocks in
32% of workers
12% 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.
A commute of about 17 minutes in Canyon Day
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Canyon Day workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 193 commuters (the 8% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Canyon Day
About 59% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Canyon Day start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 1.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 210 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). 5.2% of Canyon Day households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Canyon Day’s commuters take a bus or train.
Canyon Day next to 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% | 2% | 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% | 25% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,039 | North Fork AZ | 1,463 | $123K | 13.5% | 5.8% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,296 | Buffalo Township MO | 1,002 | $25K | 45.1% | 0.6% | 10% | D− |
| 4,297 | Grandview Township OH | 1,376 | $33K | 43.6% | 12.9% | 4% | D− |
| 4,298 | Canyon Day AZ | 1,182 | $36K | 40.2% | 8.7% | 0% | D− |
| 4,299 | Dilkon AZ | 1,270 | $38K | 40.6% | 8.7% | 5% | D− |
| 4,300 | Meadview AZ | 1,517 | $26K | 33.2% | 22.0% | 2% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Canyon Day, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Canyon Day: questions
What is the median household income in Canyon Day?
$36,207 (±$12,576) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Canyon Day?
40.2%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Canyon Day?
17 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Canyon Day work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Whiteriver (32%, 6 mi), Phoenix (12%, 119 mi), Mesa (8%, 100 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Canyon Day walkable?
Canyon Day is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 1.0 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Canyon Day without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Canyon Day, from the people who make the trip.
More of Canyon Day
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.