Verde River Sheep Bridge · Photo: Dale E. Politi · Public domainJobs, pay and the trip to work in Rye
The poverty rate is 100.0% (Arizona 12.5%). Hardly any work in Rye itself; outside it, Payson draws the most (33%, 10 miles). Employers in Rye report 31 jobs for 40 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Rye quiets down on a workday
On a workday 40 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8 people are in Rye on a workday afternoon, 53% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Rye ends
Where Rye clocks in
33% of workers
23% of workers
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.
What Rye’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rye, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 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 Rye’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Rye, by distance
About 58% 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 Rye: questions
What is the poverty rate in Rye?
100.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Rye work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Payson (33%, 10 mi), Phoenix (23%, 56 mi), Gilbert (8%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rye, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rye
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.