Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Eagar has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 480 jobs in Eagar, and 1,405 of its residents work somewhere. Eagar grades C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. For 1% of workers, the job is at home, against 18% across Arizona.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Eagar at work: what stands out
Few Eagar workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 18% across Arizona. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Eagar and Springerville trade workers both ways
Springerville is the top workplace for Eagar residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Eagar come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Eagar are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 25 across Arizona. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Arizona worker. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Eagar pay little
26% of the jobs based in Eagar pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 32% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% 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 ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Eagar’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eagar is better than 34% of U.S. towns, #70 of 140 in Arizona. Unemployment holds Eagar’s grade up (3.2%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eagar could be anywhere from D to B.
The trip to work from Eagar: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eagar workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,541 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.
24% of working residents work in Springerville
Where Eagar clocks in
24% of workers
7% 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.
What Eagar’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eagar, 2013 → 2023: 485 → 480. 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 Eagar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Eagar
About 32% 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.
Who works in Eagar, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,241 residents head out to work, 164 work right here, and 316 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,500 people are in Eagar on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
Most trips from Eagar start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eagar is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns, #32 of 140 in Arizona. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,562 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). 4.4% of Eagar households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eagar’s commuters take a bus or train.
Eagar places 2,748th of 4,000 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 359 | Citrus Park AZ | 5,115 | $141K | 8.8% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 894 | Kachina Village AZ | 3,212 | $90K | 4.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 902 | St. Johns AZ | 3,336 | $132K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 13% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,746 | Exeter PA | 5,587 | $58K | 11.1% | 6.1% | 7% | C |
| 2,747 | Hector NY | 4,733 | $80K | 15.6% | 3.6% | 10% | C |
| 2,748 | Eagar AZ | 4,459 | $83K | 14.9% | 3.2% | 12% | C |
| 2,749 | Silverthorne CO | 5,418 | $125K | 12.1% | 8.6% | 13% | C |
| 2,750 | Oregon Township MI | 5,722 | $84K | 9.4% | 10.9% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | 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 Eagar, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
24% of Eagar works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eagar workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagar | – | C | B+ | 18 min | $82,839 |
| Springerville | 24% | D | B | 13 min | $49,051 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Springerville. Darker towns draw more of Eagar’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 Eagar: questions
What is the median household income in Eagar?
$82,839 (±$15,317) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eagar?
14.9%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eagar?
18 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eagar work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springerville (24%, 4 mi), Phoenix (7%, 164 mi), Greer (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eagar walkable?
Eagar is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eagar without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eagar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eagar
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.