Lukachukai has lower household incomes than 97% of U.S. towns
35.0% of residents are in poverty, against 12.5% across Arizona. Jobs and income earn Lukachukai D−; getting around on foot earns it D. Hardly any work in Lukachukai itself; outside it, Chinle draws the most (14%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Lukachukai earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lukachukai is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Lukachukai’s grade.
Unemployment (20.5%) is left out: Lukachukai’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lukachukai stays D−.
In and out of Lukachukai on a workday
On a workday 153 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 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.
0.00 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Lukachukai’s residents
Where Lukachukai clocks in
Lines 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.
About 38 minutes each way, longer than most of Arizona
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lukachukai workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 397 commuters (the 15% 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.
Miles to work from Lukachukai
About 38% 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.
Lukachukai is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 2.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 469 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). 9.2% of Lukachukai households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lukachukai’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lukachukai and other U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 958 | Fort Valley AZ | 1,761 | $126K | 5.2% | 0.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,184 | Centennial Park AZ | 1,839 | $168K | 3.5% | 2.5% | 26% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,205 | Bellemont AZ | 1,701 | $120K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,501 | Belhaven NC | 1,414 | $33K | 40.3% | 12.5% | 11% | D− |
| 5,502 | Manchester OH | 1,874 | $29K | 44.5% | 7.9% | 14% | D− |
| 5,503 | Lukachukai AZ | 1,969 | $37K | 35.0% | 20.5% | 0% | D− |
| 5,504 | Meadview AZ | 1,517 | $26K | 33.2% | 22.0% | 2% | D− |
| 5,505 | Leilani Estates HI | 1,490 | $30K | 29.0% | 21.5% | 1% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | 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 Lukachukai, 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 Lukachukai: questions
What is the median household income in Lukachukai?
$37,011 (±$4,478) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lukachukai?
35.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lukachukai?
38 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lukachukai work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chinle (14%, 27 mi), Tsaile (14%, 8 mi), St. Michaels (5%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lukachukai walkable?
Lukachukai is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lukachukai without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lukachukai, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lukachukai
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.