Photo: The Old Pueblo · CC BY-SA 4.0Palominas draws 176 commuters a day, with 2.7 jobs for every working resident
Only 4% work in Palominas; the top destination outside it is Sierra Vista (33%, 17 miles). Employers in Palominas report 179 jobs, against 67 working residents. For 41% of workers, the job is at home, against 18% across Arizona.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Palominas fills up on a workday
On a workday 64 residents head out to work and 3 work right here.
About 370 people are in Palominas on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
Where Palominas’s workers come from
Where Palominas clocks in
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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Palominas
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Palominas, 2013 → 2023: 229 → 179. 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 Palominas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Palominas
of Palominas workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 62 commuters (the 41% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Palominas
About 36% 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 Palominas: questions
What is the poverty rate in Palominas?
0.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Palominas work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sierra Vista (33%, 17 mi), Tucson (9%, 69 mi), Sierra Vista Southeast (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Palominas 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 Palominas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Palominas
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.