Pinon has lower household incomes than 92% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 43.2%, against 12.5% across Arizona. For jobs and income Pinon is near the bottom of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (C+). 0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 18% for Arizona as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Pinon
On income, poverty and job access, Pinon is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Pinon’s grade.
Unemployment (29.8%) is left out: Pinon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Pinon stays D−.
Who leaves Pinon for work, and who comes in
On a workday 163 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Pinon on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.19 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.
8% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Pinon clocks in
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.
Most jobs in Pinon are in services
31 jobs are based in Pinon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pinon, 2013 → 2023: 52 → 31. 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 Pinon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 25 minutes from Pinon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pinon workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 345 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.
How many miles Pinon commutes
About 59% 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.
Most of Pinon commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 345 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 41% 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). 10.6% of Pinon households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Pinon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pinon and other U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 644 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,845 | Grand Canyon Village AZ | 1,599 | $73K | 13.2% | 1.5% | 18% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,039 | North Fork AZ | 1,463 | $123K | 13.5% | 5.8% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,276 | Winfield TN | 1,037 | $34K | 28.4% | 4.2% | <1% | D− |
| 4,277 | Richwood WV | 1,598 | $31K | 25.9% | 13.5% | 9% | D− |
| 4,278 | Pinon AZ | 1,159 | $46K | 43.2% | 29.8% | 1% | D− |
| 4,279 | Garberville CA | 1,415 | $40K | 42.6% | 2.1% | 22% | D− |
| 4,280 | Fern Forest HI | 1,088 | $43K | 30.6% | 3.6% | 0% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Pinon, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
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 Pinon: questions
What is the median household income in Pinon?
$45,563 (±$17,012) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pinon?
43.2%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pinon?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pinon work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (8%, 204 mi), St. Michaels (7%, 70 mi), Chinle (4%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pinon walkable?
Pinon is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pinon without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pinon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinon
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.