Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Bobby~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domainHouseholds in Eloy have lower incomes than those in 80% of U.S. towns
For 9% of workers, the job is at home, next to 18% for Arizona as a whole. Below the poverty line: 23.1% of residents, next to 12.5% across Arizona. The two grades for Eloy are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Eloy
Jobs in Eloy have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Eloy went from 1,505 in 2013 to 3,238 in 2023, +115%. The jobs ↓
Eloy’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Eloy is Phoenix, 64 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (820) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
39% 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Eloy’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eloy is better than 7% of U.S. towns, #124 of 140 in Arizona. Unemployment holds Eloy’s grade up (6.2%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eloy could be anywhere from D− to C−.
What Eloy’s employers do
3,238 jobs are based in Eloy.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eloy, 2013 → 2023: 1,505 → 3,238. 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 Eloy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Eloy
About 39% 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 leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 4,048 residents head out to work, 573 work right here, and 2,665 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.70 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.
Commuting out of Eloy: the destinations
Where Eloy clocks in
18% of workers
13% of workers
5% 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.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Eloy
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eloy workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,589 commuters (the 9% 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.
In Eloy, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eloy is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #93 of 140 in Arizona. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,932 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 11.0% of Eloy households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eloy’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Eloy compares with U.S. towns of 14,000 to 27,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ada Township MI | 14,769 | $168K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 337 | Vail AZ | 16,315 | $131K | 4.3% | 1.6% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 519 | Anthem AZ | 22,584 | $121K | 4.1% | 4.4% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 550 | New River AZ | 18,240 | $134K | 6.3% | 3.0% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,835 | Rio Rico AZ | 22,017 | $61K | 16.6% | 10.5% | 15% | D |
| 1,836 | Alexander City AL | 14,515 | $47K | 25.7% | 6.4% | 35% | D |
| 1,837 | Eloy AZ | 19,967 | $56K | 23.1% | 6.2% | 12% | D |
| 1,838 | Kinston NC | 19,705 | $37K | 27.9% | 16.1% | 35% | D |
| 1,839 | Homosassa Springs FL | 15,701 | $48K | 20.3% | 8.4% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 1,860 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Eloy, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
Eloy and its neighbors: 15% work next door
The biggest share goes to Casa Grande (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eloy workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eloy | – | D | C+ | 29 min | $55,736 |
| Picacho | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Casa Grande | 13% | C | C+ | 23 min | $69,983 |
| Coolidge | 2% | D | B− | 25 min | $67,023 |
| Arizona City | under 2% | C− | B | 31 min | $66,420 |
Same-state neighbors only. Picacho: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Eloy’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 Eloy: questions
What is the median household income in Eloy?
$55,736 (±$9,647) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eloy?
23.1%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eloy?
29 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eloy work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (18%, 64 mi), Casa Grande (13%, 15 mi), Tempe (5%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eloy walkable?
Eloy is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eloy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eloy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eloy
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.