Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District · Photo: National Park Service · Public domainSun Valley has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Working from home is the commute for 53% of workers, where Arizona as a whole has 18%. 26 jobs are based in Sun Valley; 70 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Sun Valley itself; outside it, Holbrook draws the most (43%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Sun Valley
On a workday 70 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 30 people are in Sun Valley on a workday afternoon, 59% 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.
Where Sun Valley goes to work
Where Sun Valley clocks in
43% 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.
The kinds of work in Sun Valley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Sun Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Sun Valley
of Sun Valley workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21 commuters (the 53% 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 distance from Sun Valley 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.
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 Sun Valley: questions
What is the poverty rate in Sun Valley?
17.6%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Sun Valley work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Holbrook (43%, 10 mi), Show Low (9%, 49 mi), Snowflake (4%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sun Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sun Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sun Valley
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.