Photo: Jedijoe82 · CC BY-SA 4.0Few U.S. towns have unemployment as high as Heber-Overgaard’s 16.4%
Home is the office for 1% of workers (Arizona 18%). Heber-Overgaard grades D for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Heber-Overgaard
A big share show a job far from home
57% 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 ↓
Heber-Overgaard’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Heber-Overgaard is Phoenix, 105 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (69) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Many jobs in Heber-Overgaard pay little
36% of the jobs based in Heber-Overgaard pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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 560 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Heber-Overgaard gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Heber-Overgaard is better than 7% of U.S. towns, #122 of 140 in Arizona. The poverty rate holds Heber-Overgaard’s grade up (11.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Heber-Overgaard could be anywhere from D− to C.
How far Heber-Overgaard goes to work
About 57% 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.
Inside Heber-Overgaard’s 392 jobs
392 jobs are based in Heber-Overgaard.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Heber-Overgaard, 2013 → 2023: 319 → 392. 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 Heber-Overgaard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 465 residents head out to work, 95 work right here, and 297 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.
12% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Heber-Overgaard clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
Commuting from Heber-Overgaard: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Heber-Overgaard workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,190 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.
In Heber-Overgaard, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Heber-Overgaard is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #48 of 140 in Arizona. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,204 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). 1.4% of Heber-Overgaard households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Heber-Overgaard’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Heber-Overgaard compares with U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 907 | Kachina Village AZ | 3,212 | $90K | 4.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 917 | St. Johns AZ | 3,336 | $132K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 13% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,283 | Clifton AZ | 3,752 | $78K | 2.5% | 0.8% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,176 | Perham MN | 3,746 | $50K | 19.1% | 8.9% | 45% | D |
| 4,177 | Ellisville MS | 4,473 | $32K | 22.9% | 10.9% | 11% | D |
| 4,178 | Heber-Overgaard AZ | 3,621 | $59K | 11.8% | 16.4% | 17% | D |
| 4,179 | Watseka IL | 4,510 | $44K | 23.4% | 5.8% | 29% | D |
| 4,180 | Scottsville KY | 4,673 | $36K | 21.9% | 8.7% | 26% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | 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 Heber-Overgaard, 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 Heber-Overgaard: questions
What is the median household income in Heber-Overgaard?
$58,542 (±$14,754) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Heber-Overgaard?
11.8%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Heber-Overgaard?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Heber-Overgaard work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (12%, 105 mi), Show Low (7%, 32 mi), Mesa (4%, 96 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Heber-Overgaard walkable?
Heber-Overgaard is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Heber-Overgaard without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Heber-Overgaard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Heber-Overgaard
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.