Work & commute · Pinetop-Lakeside

Work & commute in Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ

Most working residents leave Pinetop-Lakeside for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are Show Low (18%), Whiteriver (10%) and Cibecue (7%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18%

284 of 1,571 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,287 Pinetop-Lakeside residents head out of town to work, 284 work right here, and 1,517 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pinetop-Lakeside.

1,287live here, work elsewhere

284live and work here

1,517work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pinetop-Lakeside goes to work

Show Low9.1 mi away

18%289

Pinetop-Lakeside (in town)right here

18%284

Whiteriver21.3 mi away

10%163

Cibecue31.2 mi away

7%115

Phoenix128.2 mi away

6%100

Lake of the Woods1.6 mi away

2%36

Pinetop Country Club4.8 mi away

2%34

Flagstaff118.2 mi away

2%27

Holbrook53.5 mi away

2%25

Snowflake26.7 mi away

2%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%473

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

How far

How far Pinetop-Lakeside commutes

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

41%

16%

12%

31%

41%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pinetop-Lakeside is balanced between jobs and homes

1.15jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.15 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pinetop-Lakeside are

1,801 jobs are based in Pinetop-Lakeside. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pinetop-Lakeside’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pinetop-Lakeside

1,801 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Pinetop-Lakeside residents hold

1,571 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−9%

Jobs based in Pinetop-Lakeside, 2013 → 2023: 1,980 → 1,801. 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.