Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Wellton has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 30% of workers; Arizona has 18%. 267 jobs are based in Wellton; 780 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Wellton C−; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Wellton apart on work
Jobs & income in Wellton: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Wellton is better than 22% of U.S. towns, #88 of 140 in Arizona. The poverty rate holds Wellton’s grade up (8.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.5%) is left out: Wellton’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wellton could be anywhere from D to C+.
The trip to work from Wellton: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wellton workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 410 commuters (the 30% 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.
Wellton by day and by night
On a workday 696 residents head out to work, 84 work right here, and 183 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Wellton on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
25% of working residents work in Yuma
Where Wellton clocks in
25% of workers
8% of workers
3% 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 Wellton: what the 267 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wellton, 2013 → 2023: 219 → 267. 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 Wellton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Wellton works
About 26% 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.
Getting around Wellton: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wellton is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns, #82 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 585 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 98% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 26% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 5.6% of Wellton households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wellton’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Wellton is 3,607th of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 827 | Kachina Village AZ | 3,212 | $90K | 4.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 840 | St. Johns AZ | 3,336 | $132K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 13% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,328 | Rio Verde AZ | 2,261 | $132K | 6.3% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,605 | Erath LA | 1,932 | $48K | 17.5% | 4.2% | 4% | C− |
| 3,606 | Clay Township IN | 2,882 | $64K | 9.8% | 11.4% | 3% | C− |
| 3,607 | Wellton AZ | 2,671 | $58K | 8.2% | 0.5% | 11% | C− |
| 3,608 | Guyton GA | 3,247 | $86K | 14.7% | 13.6% | 1% | C− |
| 3,609 | Galesburg MI | 2,071 | $52K | 25.7% | 6.9% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Wellton, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
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 Wellton: questions
What is the median household income in Wellton?
$58,470 (±$8,959) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wellton?
8.2%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wellton?
21 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wellton work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yuma (25%, 20 mi), Phoenix (8%, 139 mi), San Luis (3%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wellton walkable?
Wellton is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wellton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 26% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wellton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wellton
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.