Salt River Canyon Bridge · Photo: Nicholas Hartmann · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Cibecue earn less than in almost any other U.S. town
57.2% of residents are in poverty, against 12.5% across Arizona. Measured by household income, Cibecue is among the lowest-earning towns in the country. Cibecue grades D− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Cibecue: the gist
Cibecue has far more jobs than workers
Cibecue has 1,339 jobs, 6.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,400 people are in town, 51% more than the 2,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
The jobs in Cibecue pay better than its residents’ jobs
89% of the jobs based in Cibecue pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 46% of the jobs Cibecue residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Cibecue. The jobs ↓
43% of Cibecue works in Whiteriver
89 working residents, 43%, have their main job in Whiteriver, 33 miles away. That’s 4 times as many as work in Cibecue itself. The commute map ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Cibecue
On income, poverty and job access, Cibecue is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Cibecue’s grade.
Unemployment (13.3%) is left out: Cibecue’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, Cibecue stays D−.
Cibecue on a workday afternoon
On a workday 182 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 1,314 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,400 people are in Cibecue on a workday afternoon, 51% more than live here.
6.5 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Cibecue
1,339 jobs are based in Cibecue.
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 Cibecue’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Cibecue
Where Cibecue clocks in
43% of workers
5% 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.
Time on the road from Cibecue: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cibecue workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 571 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cibecue
About 26% 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.
The commute in Cibecue is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cibecue is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% 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 571 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 35.7% of Cibecue households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cibecue’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000, and where Cibecue sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 949 | Fort Valley AZ | 1,761 | $126K | 5.2% | 0.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,160 | Centennial Park AZ | 1,839 | $168K | 3.5% | 2.5% | 31% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,178 | Bellemont AZ | 1,701 | $120K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,098 | Lukachukai AZ | 1,969 | $37K | 35.0% | 20.5% | 0% | D− |
| 5,099 | Navajo NM | 2,181 | $32K | 51.6% | 21.1% | 1% | D− |
| 5,100 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | D− |
| 5,101 | Nanawale Estates HI | 1,692 | $27K | 53.0% | 4.4% | 1% | D− |
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Cibecue, 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 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 Cibecue: questions
What is the median household income in Cibecue?
$25,791 (±$9,067) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cibecue?
57.2%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cibecue?
34 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cibecue work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Whiteriver (43%, 33 mi), Hondah (6%, 32 mi), Phoenix (5%, 97 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cibecue walkable?
Cibecue is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 1.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cibecue without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 36% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cibecue, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cibecue
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.