Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Mammoth trail those of 91% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 3% of workers; Arizona has 18%. Poverty touches 29.0% of residents, next to 12.5% for Arizona as a whole. For jobs and income Mammoth is near the bottom of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mammoth: the figures worth knowing
Mammoth’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Mammoth is Phoenix, 100 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (50) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
53% 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 ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Mammoth than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Mammoth fell from 836 in 2013 to 100 in 2023, −88%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 344 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Mammoth’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Mammoth is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Mammoth’s grade.
Unemployment (17.6%) is left out: Mammoth’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, Mammoth could be anywhere from D− to D.
How many miles Mammoth commutes
About 53% 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 the 100 jobs in Mammoth are
100 jobs are based in Mammoth.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mammoth, 2013 → 2023: 836 → 100. 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 Mammoth’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Mammoth
On a workday 334 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 90 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Mammoth on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.29 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.
15% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Mammoth clocks in
15% of workers
10% of workers
7% 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.
Getting to work from Mammoth takes about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mammoth workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 313 commuters (the 3% 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 Mammoth, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 324 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Mammoth households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Mammoth’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mammoth and other U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 644 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,845 | Grand Canyon Village AZ | 1,599 | $73K | 13.2% | 1.5% | 18% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,039 | North Fork AZ | 1,463 | $123K | 13.5% | 5.8% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,230 | Mentor Township MI | 1,101 | $43K | 23.3% | 9.3% | 10% | D− |
| 4,231 | Farmersville NY | 1,073 | $48K | 40.6% | 8.5% | 1% | D− |
| 4,232 | Mammoth AZ | 1,149 | $47K | 29.0% | 17.6% | 3% | D− |
| 4,233 | Clarks LA | 1,034 | $28K | 29.2% | 3.8% | 2% | D− |
| 4,234 | Goodman MS | 1,219 | $15K | 59.0% | 19.5% | 1% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Mammoth, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
How Mammoth compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Oracle. Darker towns draw more of Mammoth’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Mammoth: questions
What is the median household income in Mammoth?
$47,266 (±$8,754) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mammoth?
29.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mammoth?
35 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mammoth work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (15%, 100 mi), Tucson (10%, 38 mi), Mesa (7%, 76 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mammoth walkable?
Mammoth is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mammoth without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mammoth, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mammoth
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.