With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Pinedale works elsewhere
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 18% for Arizona as a whole. There are 34 jobs in Pinedale for 93 working residents. Only 3% work in Pinedale itself; outside it, Show Low draws the most (17%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Pinedale
On a workday 90 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 540 people are in Pinedale on a workday afternoon, 10% 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.
Commuting out of Pinedale: the destinations
Where Pinedale clocks in
17% of workers
15% 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.
Jobs in Pinedale: what the 34 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pinedale, 2013 → 2023: 104 → 34. 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 Pinedale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 51 minutes to work from Pinedale
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pinedale workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 274 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.
Half of Pinedale commutes less than 23 miles
About 48% 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 Pinedale: questions
What is the poverty rate in Pinedale?
0.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pinedale?
51 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pinedale work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Show Low (17%, 13 mi), Phoenix (15%, 117 mi), Snowflake (11%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pinedale 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 Pinedale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinedale
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.