Photo: Bernardgeorgeh · CC BY-SA 4.0Red Lake has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Red Lake report 78 jobs; 591 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Red Lake are B for jobs and income and C for walkability. 9% of workers have no commute at all (Arizona 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Red Lake: the figures worth knowing
Red Lake’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Red Lake is Flagstaff, 33 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (127) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Red Lake is a place people come home to
There are 78 jobs based in Red Lake, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Red Lake has about 1,200 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
37% 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 ↓
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 591 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Red Lake: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Red Lake is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Red Lake’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.0%) is left out: Red Lake’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Red Lake could be anywhere from B to B+.
The distance from Red Lake to work
About 37% 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 daily commute in and out of Red Lake
On a workday 578 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 65 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Red Lake on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
21% of working residents work in Flagstaff
Where Red Lake clocks in
21% of workers
19% of workers
10% 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.
What Red Lake’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Red Lake, 2013 → 2023: 83 → 78. 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 Red Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Red Lake
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Red Lake workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 816 commuters (the 9% 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.
Most trips from Red Lake start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Red Lake is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 893 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). 0.0% of Red Lake households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Red Lake’s commuters take a bus or train.
Red Lake places 1,407th of 5,760 on jobs and income among 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,405 | Monroe Township OH | 1,622 | $87K | 4.0% | 0.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,406 | Salisbury VT | 1,262 | $100K | 4.6% | 6.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,407 | Red Lake AZ | 1,676 | $101K | 0.0% | 3.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,408 | Wilson-Conococheague MD | 1,663 | $64K | 18.0% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,409 | Southport IN | 2,094 | $71K | 11.0% | 3.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Red Lake, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
19% of Red Lake works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Williams. Darker towns draw more of Red Lake’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 Red Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Red Lake?
$100,988 (±$9,300) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Red Lake?
0.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Red Lake?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Red Lake work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Flagstaff (21%, 33 mi), Williams (19%, 8 mi), Phoenix (10%, 124 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Red Lake walkable?
Red Lake is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Red Lake without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Red Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Red Lake
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.