Copper Creek Guard Station · Photo: Doncram · CC BY-SA 3.0Cordes Lakes has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
There are 172 jobs in Cordes Lakes, against 903 working residents. For jobs and income Cordes Lakes is better than 21% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is near the bottom of U.S. towns (D−). 0% of workers work from home, against 18% across Arizona.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Cordes Lakes, in brief
Cordes Lakes’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Cordes Lakes is Phoenix, 51 miles away as the crow flies. 22% of working residents (203) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
44% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Cordes Lakes is a place people come home to
There are 172 jobs based in Cordes Lakes, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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 903 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Cordes Lakes’ Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Cordes Lakes’ grade up (10.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cordes Lakes could be anywhere from D− to B+.
The commute from Cordes Lakes, by distance
About 44% 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 daily commute in and out of Cordes Lakes
On a workday 892 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 161 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Cordes Lakes on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
22% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Cordes Lakes clocks in
22% of workers
13% of workers
11% 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.
The kinds of work in Cordes Lakes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cordes Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 163 → 172. 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 Cordes Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 38 minutes to work from Cordes Lakes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cordes Lakes workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,357 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.
Cordes Lakes is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cordes Lakes is near the bottom of U.S. towns, #140 of 140 in Arizona. Both inputs place Cordes Lakes 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 1,357 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). 13.8% of Cordes Lakes households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cordes Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Cordes Lakes is 3,313th among 4,153 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 872 | Kachina Village AZ | 3,212 | $90K | 4.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 882 | St. Johns AZ | 3,336 | $132K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 13% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,230 | Clifton AZ | 3,752 | $78K | 2.5% | 0.8% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,311 | Selmer TN | 4,575 | $52K | 23.6% | 3.4% | 27% | C− |
| 3,312 | Redstone Township PA | 4,831 | $60K | 12.0% | 10.6% | 5% | C− |
| 3,313 | Cordes Lakes AZ | 3,808 | $62K | 10.9% | 4.6% | 1% | C− |
| 3,314 | Nassau Village-Ratliff FL | 4,737 | $62K | 16.1% | 10.9% | 2% | C− |
| 3,315 | Putney GA | 3,150 | $69K | 13.2% | 12.5% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,153 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Cordes Lakes, 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 Cordes Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Cordes Lakes?
$61,708 (±$9,590) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cordes Lakes?
10.9%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cordes Lakes?
38 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cordes Lakes work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (22%, 51 mi), Prescott (13%, 27 mi), Prescott Valley (11%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cordes Lakes walkable?
Cordes Lakes is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cordes Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cordes Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cordes Lakes
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.