North Central Avenue Streetscape Historic District · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0Morenci has 5.0 jobs for every working resident: 3,532 people commute in to work
4,055 jobs are based in Morenci for 815 working residents. Morenci grades B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Working from home is the commute for <1% of workers, where Arizona as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Morenci stands out on work
Morenci fills up on a workday
Morenci has 4,055 jobs, 5.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 4,900 people are in town, more than double the 1,700 who live here. Day and night ↓
Morenci makes and builds things
87% of the jobs based in Morenci are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Morenci residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 64%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Morenci are quick
The average trip to work takes 7 minutes, against 25 across Arizona. That’s about 138 hours a year less on the road than the typical Arizona worker. Time on the road ↓
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 815 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Morenci gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Morenci is better than 52% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Morenci’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Morenci could be anywhere from C− to A−.
The daily flow of workers through Morenci
On a workday 292 residents head out to work and 523 work right here.
About 4,900 people are in Morenci on a workday afternoon, 194% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
87% of the jobs in Morenci make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morenci, 2013 → 2023: 3,012 → 4,055. 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 Morenci’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Morenci, about 7 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morenci workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 991 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.
The towns that send workers to Morenci
Where Morenci clocks in
8% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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 commute from Morenci, by distance
About 20% 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 Morenci start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Morenci is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 3.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 992 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 Morenci households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Morenci’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Morenci ranks: 2,058th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 916 | Fort Valley AZ | 1,761 | $126K | 5.2% | 0.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,130 | Centennial Park AZ | 1,839 | $168K | 3.5% | 2.5% | 31% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,152 | Bellemont AZ | 1,701 | $120K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,056 | Wright NY | 1,519 | $86K | 7.0% | 2.6% | 2% | B− |
| 2,057 | Worth Township PA | 1,357 | $69K | 7.1% | 10.2% | 2% | B− |
| 2,058 | Morenci AZ | 1,673 | $70K | 3.5% | 4.0% | 64% | B− |
| 2,059 | Arnold Line MS | 1,859 | $54K | 16.0% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| 2,060 | Rutherford College NC | 1,220 | $68K | 7.7% | 2.2% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Morenci, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
Morenci and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Clifton (8%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Morenci’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 Morenci: questions
What is the median household income in Morenci?
$69,583 (±$19,331) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Morenci?
3.5%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morenci?
7 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. <1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morenci work?
64% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clifton (8%, 4 mi), Phoenix (5%, 163 mi), Safford (3%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Morenci walkable?
Morenci is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Morenci without a car?
0% 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 Morenci, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morenci
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.