Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 5.3 jobs in Elfrida for every working resident, and 584 people commute in
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Arizona as a whole has 18%. Elfrida has 593 jobs, against 111 working residents. About one in ten work in Elfrida itself; outside it, Tucson draws the most (10%, 77 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Elfrida, and who commutes in
On a workday 102 residents head out to work and 9 work right here.
About 680 people are in Elfrida on a workday afternoon, 248% more than live here.
5.3 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.
The daily trip into Elfrida
Where Elfrida clocks in
10% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
Most jobs in Elfrida are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elfrida, 2013 → 2023: 267 → 593. 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 Elfrida’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 45 minutes each way for Elfrida’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elfrida workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 57 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.
How far it is to work from Elfrida
About 42% 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.
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 Elfrida: questions
What is the poverty rate in Elfrida?
45.4%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elfrida?
45 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elfrida work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tucson (10%, 77 mi), Bisbee (8%, 24 mi), Phoenix (8%, 192 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Elfrida without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Elfrida, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elfrida
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.