Work & commute · Houck

Work & commute in Houck, AZ

Most working residents leave Houck for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are St. Michaels (22%), Gallup (11%) and Fort Defiance (11%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 159 working residents

Typical commute

32 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 154 Houck residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Houck.

154live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

124work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Houck goes to work

St. Michaels28 mi away

22%35

Gallup, NM31.9 mi away

11%18

Fort Defiance34.2 mi away

11%17

Phoenix201.1 mi away

8%13

Houck (in town)right here

3%5

Scottsdale185.9 mi away

2%3

Show Low83.4 mi away

2%3

Flagstaff135.4 mi away

2%3

Farmington, NM118 mi away

2%3

Crownpoint, NM68.1 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%56

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

How far

How far Houck commutes

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

51%

31%

9%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

51%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Houck is balanced between jobs and homes

0.81jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Houck are

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

Jobs based in Houck

129 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities74%

Services (health, schools, offices…)18%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month49%

Over $3,333 a month29%

Jobs Houck residents hold

159 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+1743%

Jobs based in Houck, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 129. 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.