Work & commute · Desert Hills

Work & commute in Desert Hills, AZ

Most working residents leave Desert Hills for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Lake Havasu City (47%), Phoenix (11%) and Kingman (4%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

47 of 918 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

34%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 871 Desert Hills residents head out of town to work, 47 work right here, and 399 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Desert Hills.

871live here, work elsewhere

47live and work here

399work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Desert Hills goes to work

Lake Havasu City5 mi away

47%427

Phoenix147.2 mi away

11%97

Desert Hills (in town)right here

5%47

Kingman50.8 mi away

4%37

Bullhead City41.4 mi away

3%27

Scottsdale155.8 mi away

2%16

Parker36.4 mi away

1%13

Las Vegas, NV126.8 mi away

1%12

Henderson, NV107.2 mi away

1%10

Needles, CA23.3 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

24%223

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Desert Hills commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

53%

37%

53%Under 10 mi

2%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Desert Hills is a commuter town

0.49jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.49 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Desert Hills are

446 jobs are based in Desert Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Desert Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Desert Hills

446 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities44%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Desert Hills residents hold

918 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month48%

+13%

Jobs based in Desert Hills, 2013 → 2023: 393 → 446. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.