Photo: Musicoceanfan88 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Marana has higher household incomes than 85% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 4.9% of residents, next to 12.5% across Arizona. Jobs and income earn Marana A−; getting around on foot earns it C+. About one in seven stay in Marana for work; outside it, Tucson is the main destination (38%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Marana and work: the main findings
A lot of Marana works one town over
43% of working residents work in a town that borders Marana: Tucson (38%) and Casas Adobes (5%). Next door ↓
Marana has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Marana went from 11,091 in 2013 to 16,243 in 2023, +46%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Marana’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Marana is better than 76% of U.S. towns, #22 of 140 in Arizona. Household income holds Marana’s grade up ($112,606, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marana could be anywhere from B+ to A.
What work there is in Marana: 16,243 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marana, 2013 → 2023: 11,091 → 16,243. 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 Marana’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Marana by day
On a workday 17,977 residents head out to work, 2,606 work right here, and 13,637 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 (0.79 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 Marana goes to work
Where Marana clocks in
38% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
About 28 minutes each way for Marana’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marana workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21,167 commuters (the 22% 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.
Where in the region Marana works
About 22% 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.
Most trips from Marana start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marana is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #96 of 140 in Arizona. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% 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 27,017 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 8% 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 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 62% 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). 2.8% of Marana households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Marana’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Marana ranks: 241st of 661 U.S. towns of 46,000 to 88,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Catalina Foothills AZ | 52,593 | $115K | 4.5% | 2.7% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Oro Valley AZ | 48,085 | $107K | 6.5% | 2.3% | 12% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 239 | Aloha OR | 52,389 | $102K | 7.8% | 4.2% | 4% | A− |
| 240 | Bloomfield Township NJ | 56,375 | $104K | 8.6% | 5.3% | 6% | A− |
| 241 | Marana AZ | 65,523 | $113K | 4.9% | 4.5% | 13% | A− |
| 242 | Laguna Niguel CA | 64,107 | $140K | 6.4% | 7.1% | 6% | A− |
| 243 | Peabody MA | 55,953 | $97K | 7.7% | 4.9% | 13% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 314 | Casas Adobes AZ | 72,059 | $84K | 6.6% | 4.3% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 661 | Pahrump NV | 47,347 | $62K | 13.7% | 8.5% | 28% | 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 Marana, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
Next door is work for 43% of Marana
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marana workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marana | – | A− | C+ | 28 min | $112,606 |
| Casas Adobes | 5% | B+ | B+ | 26 min | $83,683 |
| Picture Rocks | under 2% | C− | C− | 35 min | $61,634 |
| Tucson Mountains | under 2% | A− | C+ | 27 min | $134,474 |
| Tucson | 38% | C | A | 22 min | $57,073 |
| Nelson | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Nelson: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tucson. Darker towns draw more of Marana’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 Marana: questions
What is the median household income in Marana?
$112,606 (±$3,901) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marana?
4.9%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marana?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marana work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tucson (38%, 27 mi), Phoenix (8%, 94 mi), Casas Adobes (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marana walkable?
Marana is more walkable than 36% 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 Marana without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marana, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marana
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.