Photo: Corey Taratuta · CC BY 2.0Most of Picacho commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
8% of workers work from home (Arizona 18%). Employers in Picacho report 7 jobs for 138 working residents. Hardly any work in Picacho itself; outside it, Phoenix draws the most (17%, 69 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Picacho for work, and who comes in
On a workday 138 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 170 people are in Picacho on a workday afternoon, 44% 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 Picacho’s working residents head each day
Where Picacho clocks in
17% of workers
14% of workers
10% 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 services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Picacho, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 7. 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 Picacho’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Picacho spends getting to work: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Picacho workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 124 commuters (the 8% 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 Picacho
About 43% 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.
Next door to Picacho
The biggest share goes to Eloy (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Picacho’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 Picacho: questions
What is the median household income in Picacho?
$80,833 (±$21,140) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Picacho?
10.4%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Picacho?
32 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Picacho work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (17%, 69 mi), Tucson (14%, 53 mi), Casa Grande (10%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Picacho without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Picacho, from the people who make the trip.
More of Picacho
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.