Circle City has lower household incomes than 95% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 1% of workers, next to 18% for Arizona as a whole. 14.3% of residents live below the poverty line, where Arizona as a whole has 12.5%. Jobs and income earn Circle City D; getting around on foot earns it D−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Circle City
Circle City is a place people come home to
There are 0 jobs based in Circle City, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Circle City workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 47 minutes each way, against 25 across Arizona. Over a year that’s about 360 hours of commuting, 169 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
38% of Circle City works in Phoenix
88 working residents, 38%, have their main job in Phoenix, 33 miles away. That’s far more as work in Circle City 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 234 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Circle City gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Circle City is better than 8% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Circle City’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($41,875, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Circle City’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, Circle City could be anywhere from D− to C.
How a workday changes Circle City
On a workday 234 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Circle City on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 2023, primary jobs.
From Circle City, about 47 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Circle City workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 382 commuters (the 1% 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.
38% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Circle City clocks in
38% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
How far Circle City’s workers travel
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.
Few in Circle City walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Circle City is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Circle City near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 385 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). 0.0% of Circle City households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Circle City’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Circle City is 3,230th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 549 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,772 | North Fork AZ | 1,463 | $123K | 13.5% | 5.8% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,222 | Strawberry AZ | 1,094 | $60K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,228 | Lockney TX | 1,340 | $55K | 17.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D |
| 3,229 | Penn Township IN | 1,113 | $39K | 17.3% | 2.2% | 1% | D |
| 3,230 | Circle City AZ | 1,089 | $42K | 14.3% | 4.8% | 0% | D |
| 3,231 | Woodall OK | 1,050 | $59K | 19.0% | 12.7% | 1% | D |
| 3,232 | Munford AL | 1,371 | $42K | 19.8% | 7.9% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Circle City, 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 Circle City: questions
What is the median household income in Circle City?
$41,875 (±$10,699) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Circle City?
14.3%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Circle City?
47 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Circle City work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (38%, 33 mi), Scottsdale (9%, 42 mi), Wickenburg (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Circle City walkable?
Circle City is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Circle City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Circle City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Circle City
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.