Photo: RodneyRamsey · CC BY 2.0Work means Flagstaff for more than half of Doney Park’s working residents
Measured by household income, Doney Park is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns. Doney Park grades B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 4% stay in Doney Park for work; outside it, Flagstaff is the main destination (59%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Doney Park, in a few figures
More than half of Doney Park works in Flagstaff
1,484 working residents, 59%, have their main job in Flagstaff, 7.9 miles away across the town line. That’s 15 times as many as work in Doney Park itself. The commute map ↓
Doney Park makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Doney Park are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Doney Park residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
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.
What’s behind Doney Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Doney Park is better than 70% of U.S. towns, #28 of 140 in Arizona. Household income holds Doney Park’s grade up ($104,967, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Doney Park could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Commuting out of Doney Park: the destinations
Where Doney Park clocks in
59% of workers
8% of workers
2% 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.
Doney Park makes things: 44% of its jobs are in goods
783 jobs are based in Doney Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Doney Park, 2013 → 2023: 586 → 783. 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 Doney Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Doney Park: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 2,421 residents head out to work, 114 work right here, and 669 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Doney Park on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
0.31 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.
Time on the road from Doney Park: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Doney Park workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,273 commuters (the 20% 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 Doney Park commutes
About 28% 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.
Few in Doney Park walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Doney Park is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns, #118 of 140 in Arizona. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.9% across Arizona.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,834 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 Doney Park households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Doney Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,138th of 3,297: where Doney Park ranks among U.S. towns of 4,400 to 8,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 339 | Litchfield Park AZ | 6,727 | $126K | 3.9% | 3.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 341 | Citrus Park AZ | 5,115 | $141K | 8.8% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 422 | Rincon Valley AZ | 6,512 | $132K | 4.1% | 1.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,136 | Ewa Villages HI | 7,415 | $89K | 15.3% | 2.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,137 | Woodlawn MD | 7,750 | $93K | 5.3% | 10.9% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,138 | Doney Park AZ | 6,253 | $105K | 6.1% | 2.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,139 | Black Jack MO | 6,547 | $78K | 5.0% | 6.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,140 | Great Neck Plaza NY | 7,889 | $92K | 8.6% | 6.2% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,297 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Doney Park, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
61% of Doney Park works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Doney Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doney Park | – | B+ | D | 22 min | $104,967 |
| Mountain View Ranches | 1% | B | C+ | 23 min | $116,290 |
| Flagstaff | 59% | B− | A+ | 17 min | $71,512 |
| Timberline-Fernwood | 1% | B | C | 27 min | $124,638 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Flagstaff. Darker towns draw more of Doney Park’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Doney Park: questions
What is the median household income in Doney Park?
$104,967 (±$19,233) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Doney Park?
6.1%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Doney Park?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Doney Park work?
4% work in town.
Is Doney Park walkable?
Doney Park is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Doney Park 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 Doney Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Doney Park
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.