Photo: Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand · CC BY 2.0Naco has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
3% of workers work from home (Arizona 18%). Naco has 64 jobs for 254 working residents. For jobs and income Naco is better than 2% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Naco stands out on work
Naco and Bisbee trade workers both ways
Bisbee is the top workplace for Naco residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in Naco come from (45% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% 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 ↓
Naco is a place people come home to
There are 64 jobs based in Naco, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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 254 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Naco’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income holds Naco’s grade up ($57,540, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (8.1%) is left out: Naco’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, Naco could be anywhere from D− to C.
30% of working residents work in Bisbee
Where Naco clocks in
30% of workers
10% 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.
Where in the region Naco works
About 40% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Naco
On a workday 252 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 62 people come in from elsewhere.
About 870 people are in Naco on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Naco
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Naco, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 64. 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 Naco’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Naco takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Naco workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 308 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 Naco, the car does most of the work
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 319 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 Naco households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Naco’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Naco sits among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 437 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,834 | Strawberry AZ | 1,094 | $60K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,102 | Tubac AZ | 1,294 | $73K | 13.4% | 0.0% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,974 | Knox City TX | 1,009 | $42K | 17.5% | 1.7% | 17% | D− |
| 2,975 | Appalachia VA | 1,369 | $43K | 28.3% | 13.1% | 4% | D− |
| 2,976 | Naco AZ | 1,060 | $58K | 33.0% | 8.1% | 1% | D− |
| 2,977 | Fowler CO | 1,171 | $44K | 18.5% | 1.5% | 9% | D− |
| 2,978 | Del Norte CO | 1,396 | $41K | 18.5% | 6.8% | 20% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Naco, 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 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 Naco: questions
What is the median household income in Naco?
$57,540 (±$47,133) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Naco?
33.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Naco?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Naco work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bisbee (30%, 4 mi), Tucson (10%, 79 mi), Phoenix (8%, 199 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Naco walkable?
Naco is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Naco 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 Naco, from the people who make the trip.
More of Naco
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.