Photo: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Montezuma Creek has 8.3 jobs per working resident, and 216 people come in to work
4% of workers work from home, against 18% across Utah. There are 224 jobs in Montezuma Creek, against 27 working residents. About one in four work in Montezuma Creek; the top destination outside it is Yuma (4%, 442 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Montezuma Creek for work, and who comes in
On a workday 19 residents head out to work and 8 work right here.
About 440 people are in Montezuma Creek on a workday afternoon, 82% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Montezuma Creek’s workers come from
Where Montezuma Creek clocks in
4% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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: 57% of jobs based in Montezuma Creek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Montezuma Creek, 2014 → 2024: 52 → 224. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Montezuma Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Montezuma Creek’s commute takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Montezuma Creek workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Montezuma Creek
About 37% 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 2024.
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 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Montezuma Creek workers work outside Utah. The job records count 19% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Montezuma Creek: questions
What is the poverty rate in Montezuma Creek?
43.2%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Montezuma Creek?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Montezuma Creek work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yuma (4%, 442 mi), Rifle (4%, 178 mi), Centennial (4%, 289 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Montezuma Creek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Montezuma Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Montezuma Creek
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.