With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Wilhoit works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 18% for Arizona as a whole. Wilhoit has 12 jobs, against 228 working residents. The two grades for Wilhoit are D for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Wilhoit apart on work
Wilhoit’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wilhoit is Phoenix, 65 miles away as the crow flies. 26% of working residents (60) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
56% 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 ↓
Wilhoit workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 48 minutes each way, against 25 across Arizona. Over a year that’s about 368 hours of commuting, 176 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 228 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Wilhoit: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Wilhoit is better than 7% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wilhoit’s grade up (15.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.5%) is left out: Wilhoit’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, Wilhoit could be anywhere from D− to C.
How far Wilhoit goes to work
About 56% 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.
Each way, about 48 minutes from Wilhoit
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wilhoit workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 457 commuters (the 5% 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.
A workday in Wilhoit: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 226 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Wilhoit on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
26% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Wilhoit clocks in
26% of workers
11% of workers
8% 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.
Goods jobs make up 50% of work in Wilhoit
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wilhoit, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 12. 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 Wilhoit’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Wilhoit, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wilhoit is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 481 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). 1.7% of Wilhoit households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wilhoit’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wilhoit places 3,282nd of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 549 | Mountainaire AZ | 1,103 | $112K | 5.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,772 | North Fork AZ | 1,463 | $123K | 13.5% | 5.8% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,222 | Strawberry AZ | 1,094 | $60K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,280 | Sangerville ME | 1,336 | $50K | 13.5% | 6.9% | 3% | D |
| 3,281 | Gladwin Township MI | 1,151 | $59K | 18.7% | 5.9% | 1% | D |
| 3,282 | Wilhoit AZ | 1,101 | $58K | 15.9% | 7.5% | 1% | D |
| 3,283 | Bear Creek AL | 1,054 | $50K | 16.4% | 8.2% | 5% | D |
| 3,284 | Mancelona MI | 1,399 | $52K | 16.8% | 7.3% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Wilhoit, 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 Wilhoit: questions
What is the median household income in Wilhoit?
$57,708 (±$20,933) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wilhoit?
15.9%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wilhoit?
48 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wilhoit work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (26%, 65 mi), Wickenburg (11%, 30 mi), Prescott (8%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wilhoit walkable?
Wilhoit is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wilhoit without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wilhoit, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wilhoit
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.