Most of St. David commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns. 118 jobs are based in St. David; 497 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income St. David is better than 14% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in St. David, in a few figures
St. David and Benson trade workers both ways
Benson is the top workplace for St. David residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in St. David come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
St. David is a place people come home to
There are 118 jobs based in St. David, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday St. David has about 720 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% 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 497 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind St. David’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds St. David’s grade up (9.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: St. David’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, St. David could be anywhere from D− to C+.
19% of working residents work in Benson
Where St. David clocks in
19% of workers
19% of workers
9% 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.
In and out of St. David on a workday
On a workday 480 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 101 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in St. David on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from St. David
About 34% 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 kinds of work in St. David
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. David, 2013 → 2023: 162 → 118. 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 St. David’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From St. David, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. David workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 237 commuters (the 17% 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.
Driving is how St. David gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 21.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 287 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.3% of St. David households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. David’s commuters take a bus or train.
St. David places 2,851st of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 549 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,772 | North Fork AZ | 1,463 | $123K | 13.5% | 5.8% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,222 | Strawberry AZ | 1,094 | $60K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,849 | Wymore NE | 1,341 | $57K | 11.2% | 4.7% | 11% | D |
| 2,850 | Burlington Township MI | 1,419 | $61K | 12.8% | 2.9% | 3% | D |
| 2,851 | St. David AZ | 1,098 | $53K | 9.1% | 0.0% | 3% | D |
| 2,852 | Goodman MO | 1,320 | $54K | 16.5% | 3.7% | 2% | D |
| 2,853 | Orwell NY | 1,081 | $69K | 16.7% | 5.9% | <1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 St. David, 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 St. David: questions
What is the median household income in St. David?
$53,188 (±$17,250) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. David?
9.1%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. David?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. David work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Benson (19%, 7 mi), Tucson (19%, 42 mi), Phoenix (9%, 159 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. David walkable?
St. David is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 22% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. David without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. David, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. David
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.