Painted Rocks · Photo: Offworlder · Public domainTheba draws 178 commuters a day, with 6.6 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Theba report 179 jobs for 27 working residents. Only 4% work in Theba; the top destination outside it is Gila Bend (33%, 11 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Arizona as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Theba by day and by night
On a workday 26 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 160 people are in Theba on a workday afternoon, 2171% more 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 Theba’s workers come from
Where Theba clocks in
33% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 66% of the jobs in Theba
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Theba, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 179. 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 Theba’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Theba
of Theba workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Theba commutes less than 35 miles
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 Theba: questions
What is the poverty rate in Theba?
0.0%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Theba work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gila Bend (33%, 11 mi), Phoenix (11%, 65 mi), Tucson (7%, 129 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Theba 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 Theba, from the people who make the trip.
More of Theba
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.