Tonopah has 5.7 jobs for every working resident: 63 people commute in to work
Hardly any stay in Tonopah for work; outside it, Phoenix is the main destination (18%, 49 miles). 63 jobs are based in Tonopah, and 11 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tonopah by day and by night
On a workday 11 residents head out to work and none work right 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.
Commuting in to Tonopah: where workers come from
Where Tonopah clocks in
18% of workers
18% 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.
Making and building: 37% of jobs based in Tonopah
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tonopah, 2013 → 2023: 45 → 63. 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 Tonopah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Tonopah commutes less than 40 miles
About 36% 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 Tonopah: questions
Where do people who live in Tonopah work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (18%, 49 mi), Mesa (18%, 70 mi), Gilbert (9%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tonopah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tonopah
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.