Work & commute · Flowing Wells

Work & commute in Flowing Wells, AZ

Most working residents leave Flowing Wells for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Tucson (47%), Phoenix (9%) and Casas Adobes (7%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

219 of 5,748 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,529 Flowing Wells residents head out of town to work, 219 work right here, and 4,549 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Flowing Wells.

5,529live here, work elsewhere

219live and work here

4,549work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Flowing Wells goes to work

Tucson12.7 mi away

47%2,721

Phoenix108.2 mi away

9%539

Casas Adobes3.3 mi away

7%400

Marana13.9 mi away

5%278

Flowing Wells (in town)right here

4%219

Oro Valley9 mi away

3%181

Catalina Foothills7.4 mi away

2%131

Tempe92.6 mi away

2%123

Mesa86.7 mi away

2%88

Scottsdale108 mi away

1%84

Everywhere elseother towns and states

17%984

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

How far

How far Flowing Wells commutes

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

58%

18%

23%

58%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Flowing Wells is balanced between jobs and homes

0.83jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Flowing Wells are

4,768 jobs are based in Flowing Wells. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Flowing Wells’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Flowing Wells

4,768 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)41%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Flowing Wells residents hold

5,748 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month46%

+21%

Jobs based in Flowing Wells, 2013 → 2023: 3,926 → 4,768. 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.