Charles S. Todd House · Photo: Tdw1203 · CC BY-SA 3.0Tucson draws more than half of Tanque Verde’s working residents
For jobs and income Tanque Verde is better than 83% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (C). Household incomes here are higher than in 89% of U.S. towns. Only 6% work in Tanque Verde; the top destination outside it is Tucson (52%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Tanque Verde
Why Tanque Verde gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Tanque Verde’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tanque Verde could be anywhere from B+ to A.
A workday in Tanque Verde: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 5,336 residents head out to work, 339 work right here, and 1,487 people come in from elsewhere.
About 12,000 people are in Tanque Verde on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.32 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Tanque Verde goes to work
Where Tanque Verde clocks in
52% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
1,826 jobs are based in Tanque Verde.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tanque Verde, 2013 → 2023: 1,626 → 1,826. 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 Tanque Verde’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Tanque Verde: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tanque Verde workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,761 commuters (the 23% 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.
How far Tanque Verde’s workers travel
About 23% 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.
Few in Tanque Verde walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,206 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 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 52% 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). 1.8% of Tanque Verde households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Tanque Verde’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Tanque Verde is 606th among 2,109 U.S. towns of 11,000 to 21,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Paradise Valley AZ | 12,251 | $247K | 5.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 366 | Vail AZ | 16,315 | $131K | 4.3% | 1.6% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 589 | New River AZ | 18,240 | $134K | 6.3% | 3.0% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 604 | Loveland OH | 13,288 | $94K | 7.8% | 2.9% | 4% | A− |
| 605 | Elma NY | 11,667 | $116K | 3.8% | 5.1% | 8% | A− |
| 606 | Tanque Verde AZ | 15,866 | $122K | 2.3% | 4.4% | 6% | A− |
| 607 | Huntington VA | 13,502 | $100K | 7.3% | 4.2% | 1% | A− |
| 608 | Mill Creek WA | 20,902 | $124K | 6.4% | 4.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,109 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Tanque Verde, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
Work next door: 55% of Tanque Verde’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tanque Verde workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanque Verde | – | A− | C | 29 min | $121,599 |
| Tucson | 52% | C | A | 22 min | $57,073 |
| Catalina Foothills | 3% | A | B− | 22 min | $115,304 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tucson. Darker towns draw more of Tanque Verde’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 Tanque Verde: questions
What is the median household income in Tanque Verde?
$121,599 (±$10,203) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tanque Verde?
2.3%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tanque Verde?
29 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tanque Verde work?
6% work in town.
Is Tanque Verde walkable?
Tanque Verde is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tanque Verde 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 Tanque Verde, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tanque Verde
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.