Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Fort Thomas commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Fort Thomas itself; outside it, Safford draws the most (27%, 20 miles). Fort Thomas has 4 jobs; 115 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Arizona as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Fort Thomas by day
On a workday 115 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Fort Thomas on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
The towns that employ Fort Thomas’ residents
Where Fort Thomas clocks in
27% of workers
16% of workers
10% 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.
Jobs in Fort Thomas: what the 4 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Fort Thomas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Fort Thomas: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Thomas workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 103 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 Fort Thomas
About 26% 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 Fort Thomas: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Thomas?
$108,542 (±$106,193) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Thomas?
4.8%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Thomas?
19 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Thomas work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Safford (27%, 20 mi), Pima (16%, 12 mi), Thatcher (10%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fort Thomas without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fort Thomas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Thomas
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.