Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Taylor have higher incomes than those in 68% of U.S. towns
12% of workers have no commute at all, next to 18% for Arizona as a whole. 14.3% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 12.5% for Arizona as a whole. The two grades for Taylor are C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Taylor
A big share show a job far from home
45% 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 ↓
Taylor and Snowflake trade workers both ways
Snowflake is the top workplace for Taylor residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Taylor come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Taylor has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Taylor went from 650 in 2013 to 1,122 in 2023, +73%. The jobs ↓
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 918 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Taylor earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Taylor is better than 37% of U.S. towns, #64 of 140 in Arizona. Household income holds Taylor’s grade up ($90,275, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Taylor could be anywhere from D to A−.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Taylor
About 45% 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.
17% of working residents work in Snowflake
Where Taylor clocks in
14% of workers
14% 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.
Jobs in Taylor: what the 1,122 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Taylor, 2013 → 2023: 650 → 1,122. 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 Taylor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Taylor, and who commutes in
On a workday 815 residents head out to work, 103 work right here, and 1,019 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.22 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.
Getting to work from Taylor takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Taylor workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,441 commuters (the 12% 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.
For most of Taylor, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Taylor is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns, #110 of 140 in Arizona. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.9% across Arizona.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,641 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 Taylor households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Taylor’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Taylor is 2,624th of 4,000 U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 359 | Citrus Park AZ | 5,115 | $141K | 8.8% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 894 | Kachina Village AZ | 3,212 | $90K | 4.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 902 | St. Johns AZ | 3,336 | $132K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 13% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,622 | Ellery NY | 4,053 | $87K | 9.2% | 6.7% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,623 | Rutland VT | 3,869 | $72K | 10.4% | 5.1% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,624 | Taylor AZ | 4,408 | $90K | 14.3% | 3.6% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,625 | Virden IL | 3,149 | $81K | 10.2% | 6.8% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,626 | Milford IA | 3,209 | $63K | 8.9% | 4.2% | 23% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Taylor, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
17% of Taylor works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Snowflake. Darker towns draw more of Taylor’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 Taylor: questions
What is the median household income in Taylor?
$90,275 (±$22,991) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Taylor?
14.3%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Taylor?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Taylor work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Snowflake (17%, 6 mi), Show Low (14%, 13 mi), Phoenix (14%, 129 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Taylor walkable?
Taylor is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Taylor 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 Taylor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Taylor
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.