A job hub: Yucca has 5.4 jobs per working resident, and 157 people come in to work
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Arizona has 18%. Yucca has 157 jobs; 29 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Yucca for work; outside it, Kingman is the main destination (7%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Yucca on a workday afternoon
On a workday 29 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 200 people are in Yucca on a workday afternoon, 171% 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.
The daily trip into Yucca
Where Yucca clocks in
7% 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.
In Yucca, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yucca, 2013 → 2023: 22 → 157. 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 Yucca’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Yucca
of Yucca 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.
The commute from Yucca, by distance
About 62% 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 Yucca: questions
What is the median household income in Yucca?
$23,036 (±$10,821) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yucca?
42.7%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Yucca work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kingman (7%, 26 mi), Phoenix (7%, 148 mi), Lake Havasu City (7%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Yucca 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 Yucca, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yucca
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.