Photo: Richard N Horne · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Oxbow Estates commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Oxbow Estates has 8 jobs, against 81 working residents. Hardly any stay in Oxbow Estates for work; outside it, Payson is the main destination (28%, 5 miles). 0% of workers work from home; Arizona has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Oxbow Estates on a workday
On a workday 81 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Oxbow Estates on a workday afternoon, 100% 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.
Where Oxbow Estates’ working residents head each day
Where Oxbow Estates clocks in
28% of workers
16% of workers
9% 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.
Oxbow Estates works in goods: 75% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oxbow Estates, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 8. 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 Oxbow Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Oxbow Estates
of Oxbow Estates workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12 commuters (the 0% 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 distance from Oxbow Estates to work
About 63% 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 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 Oxbow Estates: questions
What is the poverty rate in Oxbow Estates?
0.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Oxbow Estates work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Payson (28%, 5 mi), Phoenix (16%, 60 mi), Mesa (9%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Oxbow Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 40% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oxbow Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oxbow Estates
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.