Alfred Jason Randall House · Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Pine trail those of 75% of U.S. towns
At home: 45% of workers have no commute at all (Arizona 18%). 5.7% of residents are in poverty, against 12.5% across Arizona. Pine grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Pine, in a few figures
A big share show a job far from home
70% 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 ↓
Pine’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Pine is Phoenix, 67 miles away as the crow flies. 26% of working residents (121) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Home offices are common in Pine
45% of Pine workers work from home, against 18% across Arizona. Time on the road ↓
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 468 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Pine gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Pine is better than 27% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pine’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Pine’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Pine could be anywhere from D to B−.
The commute from Pine, by distance
About 70% 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.
About 28 minutes each way, longer than most of Arizona
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 279 commuters (the 45% 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 daily commute in and out of Pine
On a workday 392 residents head out to work, 76 work right here, and 208 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Pine on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.61 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
26% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Pine clocks in
26% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
Inside Pine’s 284 jobs
284 jobs are based in Pine.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine, 2013 → 2023: 219 → 284. 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 Pine’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Pine is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Pine near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 507 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 Pine households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pine’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Pine ranks: 3,627th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 916 | Fort Valley AZ | 1,761 | $126K | 5.2% | 0.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,130 | Centennial Park AZ | 1,839 | $168K | 3.5% | 2.5% | 31% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,152 | Bellemont AZ | 1,701 | $120K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,625 | Vermontville Township MI | 1,961 | $70K | 14.8% | 2.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,626 | Adams WI | 1,431 | $69K | 10.7% | 1.3% | 3% | C |
| 3,627 | Pine AZ | 1,740 | $59K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 16% | C |
| 3,628 | Home Garden CA | 1,806 | $56K | 15.0% | 13.9% | 2% | C |
| 3,629 | Kiln MS | 2,016 | $72K | 18.2% | 5.8% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Pine, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
Around Pine: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pine workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine | – | C | D | 28 min | $59,432 |
| Strawberry | under 3% | C | D− | 73 min | $60,492 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pine’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 Pine: questions
What is the median household income in Pine?
$59,432 (±$17,300) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine?
5.7%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 45% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (26%, 66 mi), Payson (9%, 12 mi), Mesa (6%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine walkable?
Pine is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine 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 Pine, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine
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.