St. Joseph Bridge · Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Earning a living in Joseph City
Joseph City grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers; Arizona has 18%. About one in ten work in Joseph City itself; outside it, Winslow draws the most (14%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Joseph City apart
A big share show a job far from home
61% 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 ↓
Few Joseph City workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 18% across Arizona. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 303 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Joseph City
On income, poverty and job access, Joseph City is better than 15% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Joseph City’s grade up ($75,227, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.8%) is left out: Joseph City’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Joseph City could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Miles to work from Joseph City
About 61% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 25 minutes each way for Joseph City’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Joseph City workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 709 commuters (the 2% 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 and out of Joseph City on a workday
On a workday 274 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 233 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Joseph City’s residents
Where Joseph City clocks in
14% of workers
11% 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.
The 262 jobs based in Joseph City
262 jobs are based in Joseph City.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Joseph City, 2014 → 2024: 270 → 262. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Joseph City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Joseph City is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Joseph City is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 721 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). 2.3% of Joseph City households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Joseph City’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Joseph City is 4,298th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 973 | Fort Valley AZ | 1,761 | $126K | 5.2% | 0.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,199 | Centennial Park AZ | 1,839 | $168K | 3.5% | 2.5% | 26% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,219 | Bellemont AZ | 1,701 | $120K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,296 | Worcester NY | 2,054 | $70K | 21.7% | 5.1% | 11% | C− |
| 4,297 | Beccaria Township PA | 1,741 | $60K | 13.6% | 11.1% | 6% | C− |
| 4,298 | Joseph City AZ | 2,153 | $75K | 17.1% | 7.8% | 10% | C− |
| 4,299 | Redwood Valley CA | 1,898 | $64K | 17.3% | 13.7% | 2% | C− |
| 4,300 | Owenton KY | 1,690 | $55K | 14.9% | 6.8% | 10% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Joseph City, 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 2024, 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 Joseph City: questions
What is the median household income in Joseph City?
$75,227 (±$22,567) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Joseph City?
17.1%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Joseph City?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Joseph City work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winslow (14%, 22 mi), Phoenix (11%, 139 mi), Holbrook (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Joseph City walkable?
Joseph City is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Joseph City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Joseph City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Joseph City
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.