Picture Rocks has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Picture Rocks has 514 jobs, and 3,637 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Picture Rocks are C− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 5% of workers have no commute at all; Arizona has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Picture Rocks in brief
Picture Rocks workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 25 across Arizona. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Picture Rocks and Tucson trade workers both ways
Tucson is the top workplace for Picture Rocks residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Picture Rocks come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Picture Rocks is a place people come home to
There are 514 jobs based in Picture Rocks, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Picture Rocks has about 6,300 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
42% of the jobs in Picture Rocks are in trade, transport and utilities, against 20% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Picture Rocks
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Picture Rocks is better than 16% of U.S. towns, #101 of 140 in Arizona. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Picture Rocks’ grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Picture Rocks could be anywhere from D to C+.
Time on the road from Picture Rocks: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Picture Rocks workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,989 commuters (the 5% 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.
36% of working residents work in Tucson
Where Picture Rocks clocks in
36% of workers
12% 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.
Picture Rocks by day and by night
On a workday 3,545 residents head out to work, 92 work right here, and 422 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,300 people are in Picture Rocks on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
The kinds of work in Picture Rocks
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Picture Rocks, 2013 → 2023: 281 → 514. 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 Picture Rocks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Picture Rocks’ commute, mile by mile
About 23% 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 commute in Picture Rocks is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Picture Rocks is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns, #117 of 140 in Arizona. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,136 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 43% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.8% of Picture Rocks households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Picture Rocks’ commuters take a bus or train.
Picture Rocks places 2,529th of 2,831 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Paradise Valley AZ | 12,251 | $247K | 5.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 368 | Litchfield Park AZ | 6,727 | $126K | 3.9% | 3.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 782 | Tucson Mountains AZ | 11,353 | $134K | 8.9% | 3.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,527 | Mims FL | 7,610 | $59K | 11.4% | 7.3% | 4% | C− |
| 2,528 | Brazil IN | 8,343 | $52K | 18.6% | 5.9% | 14% | C− |
| 2,529 | Picture Rocks AZ | 9,448 | $62K | 16.8% | 6.4% | 3% | C− |
| 2,530 | River Rouge MI | 6,814 | $41K | 39.8% | 11.4% | 4% | C− |
| 2,531 | El Campo TX | 12,142 | $67K | 21.0% | 6.4% | 26% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,831 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Picture Rocks, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
12% of Picture Rocks works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Picture Rocks workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picture Rocks | – | C− | C− | 35 min | $61,634 |
| Marana | 12% | A− | C+ | 28 min | $112,606 |
| Avra Valley | under 2% | D | D− | 34 min | $54,132 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Marana. Darker towns draw more of Picture Rocks’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 Picture Rocks: questions
What is the median household income in Picture Rocks?
$61,634 (±$8,449) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Picture Rocks?
16.8%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Picture Rocks?
35 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Picture Rocks work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tucson (36%, 26 mi), Marana (12%, 11 mi), Phoenix (8%, 98 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Picture Rocks walkable?
Picture Rocks is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Picture Rocks without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Picture Rocks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Picture Rocks
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.