Photo: CZfromPV · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer people are out of work in Prescott Valley (2.8%) than in 73% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Prescott Valley B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Working residents average 22 minutes each way, where Arizona has 25 and the U.S. 26. Prescott Valley has 15,560 jobs, and 19,504 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Prescott Valley: the gist
Prescott Valley has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Prescott Valley went from 8,666 in 2014 to 15,560 in 2024, +80%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% 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 ↓
Prescott Valley and Prescott trade workers both ways
Prescott is the top workplace for Prescott Valley residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Prescott Valley come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Prescott Valley earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Prescott Valley is better than 46% of U.S. towns, #55 of 140 in Arizona. Unemployment holds Prescott Valley’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Prescott Valley could be anywhere from C to B.
What Prescott Valley’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prescott Valley, 2014 → 2024: 8,666 → 15,560. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Prescott Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Prescott Valley to work
About 41% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
25% of working residents work in Prescott
Where Prescott Valley clocks in
25% of workers
16% of workers
3% 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.
Who works in Prescott Valley, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 15,101 residents head out to work, 4,403 work right here, and 11,157 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Arizona
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prescott Valley workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 17,561 commuters (the 14% 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 commute in Prescott Valley is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Prescott Valley is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns, #79 of 140 in Arizona. Both inputs place Prescott Valley 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 20,427 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 1.6% of Prescott Valley households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Prescott Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Prescott Valley is 602nd of 837 U.S. towns of 37,000 to 71,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
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| 120 | Catalina Foothills AZ | 52,593 | $115K | 4.5% | 2.7% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 282 | Oro Valley AZ | 48,085 | $107K | 6.5% | 2.3% | 12% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 328 | Marana AZ | 65,523 | $113K | 4.9% | 4.5% | 12% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 600 | Jeffersonville Township IN | 65,369 | $62K | 14.4% | 4.9% | 20% | B− |
| 601 | Ross Township IN | 49,726 | $72K | 11.0% | 7.4% | 18% | B− |
| 602 | Prescott Valley AZ | 52,423 | $75K | 11.7% | 2.8% | 23% | B− |
| 603 | Boardman Township OH | 39,687 | $67K | 13.5% | 4.6% | 22% | B− |
| 604 | Bath Township OH | 40,768 | $63K | 14.5% | 4.4% | 10% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 837 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 25% | 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 Prescott Valley, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
Next door is work for 25% of Prescott Valley
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Prescott Valley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prescott Valley | – | B− | C+ | 22 min | $74,569 |
| Dewey-Humboldt | under 2% | C− | B− | 24 min | $66,535 |
| Prescott | 25% | C+ | A− | 19 min | $70,874 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Prescott. Darker towns draw more of Prescott Valley’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 2024, 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 Prescott Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Prescott Valley?
$74,569 (±$5,879) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prescott Valley?
11.7%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prescott Valley?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prescott Valley work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Prescott (25%, 7 mi), Phoenix (16%, 72 mi), Scottsdale (3%, 68 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Prescott Valley walkable?
Prescott Valley is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Prescott Valley without a car?
<1% 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 Prescott Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prescott Valley
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.