Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Fredonia have lower incomes than those in 69% of U.S. towns
For 4% of workers, the job is at home; Arizona has 18%. Poverty touches 24.3% of residents, where Arizona as a whole has 12.5%. The two grades for Fredonia 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
Work in Fredonia: the figures worth knowing
A big share show a job far from home
54% 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 ↓
The jobs in Fredonia pay better than its residents’ jobs
70% of the jobs based in Fredonia pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 48% of the jobs Fredonia residents hold. 92% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Fredonia. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Fredonia are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 25 across Arizona. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Arizona worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 472 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Fredonia’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Fredonia is better than 5% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Fredonia’s grade up ($62,887, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Fredonia’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fredonia could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How far Fredonia’s workers travel
About 54% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Fredonia
702 jobs are based in Fredonia.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fredonia, 2013 → 2023: 634 → 702. 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 Fredonia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 16 minutes from Fredonia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fredonia workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 436 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who commutes out of Fredonia, and who commutes in
On a workday 418 residents head out to work, 54 work right here, and 648 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Fredonia on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Fredonia goes to work
Where Fredonia clocks in
18% of workers
14% 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.
The commute in Fredonia is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fredonia is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of 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 456 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 Fredonia households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fredonia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fredonia next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 4,371st of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 734 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,035 | Red Lake AZ | 1,676 | $101K | 0.0% | 3.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,564 | Morenci AZ | 1,673 | $70K | 3.5% | 4.0% | 64% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,369 | Union Township IN | 1,256 | $44K | 18.1% | 7.0% | 12% | D |
| 4,370 | Delft Colony CA | 1,043 | $37K | 86.3% | 56.0% | 0% | D |
| 4,371 | Fredonia AZ | 1,290 | $63K | 24.3% | 6.0% | 11% | D |
| 4,372 | Hiawassee GA | 1,038 | $45K | 17.7% | 7.1% | 11% | D |
| 4,373 | Stronghurst Township IL | 1,004 | $51K | 20.7% | 8.2% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Fredonia, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
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 Fredonia: questions
What is the median household income in Fredonia?
$62,887 (±$18,720) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fredonia?
24.3%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fredonia?
16 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fredonia work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kanab (18%, 4 mi), Page (14%, 55 mi), Phoenix (10%, 235 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fredonia walkable?
Fredonia is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fredonia 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 Fredonia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fredonia
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.