Photo: Neeta Lind · CC BY 2.0Most of Tonalea commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
There are 2 jobs in Tonalea for 87 working residents. Hardly any stay in Tonalea for work; outside it, Page is the main destination (28%, 52 miles). 29% of workers work from home; Arizona has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Tonalea for work, and who comes in
On a workday 87 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Tonalea on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
The towns that employ Tonalea’s residents
Where Tonalea clocks in
28% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Tonalea
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tonalea, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 2. 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 Tonalea’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Tonalea: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tonalea workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 22 commuters (the 29% 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.
Tonalea’s commute, mile by mile
About 69% 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 Tonalea: questions
What is the median household income in Tonalea?
$33,681 (±$8,125) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tonalea?
63.4%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tonalea?
17 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tonalea work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Page (28%, 52 mi), Phoenix (14%, 200 mi), St. Michaels (7%, 114 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tonalea without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tonalea, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tonalea
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.