Work & commute · Wagon Wheel

Work & commute in Wagon Wheel, AZ

Most working residents leave Wagon Wheel for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Show Low (34%), Pinetop-Lakeside (9%) and Phoenix (7%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 690 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 669 Wagon Wheel residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 293 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wagon Wheel.

669live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

293work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wagon Wheel goes to work

Show Low4.7 mi away

34%233

Pinetop-Lakeside4.9 mi away

9%65

Phoenix126 mi away

7%50

Cibecue29 mi away

3%23

Whiteriver25 mi away

3%23

Taylor17.4 mi away

3%21

Wagon Wheel (in town)right here

3%21

Snowflake22.7 mi away

3%18

Holbrook49.5 mi away

2%16

Lake of the Woods3.6 mi away

2%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%205

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

How far

How far Wagon Wheel commutes

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

51%

10%

30%

51%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wagon Wheel is a commuter town

0.46jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wagon Wheel are

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

Jobs based in Wagon Wheel

314 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities42%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Wagon Wheel residents hold

690 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−14%

Jobs based in Wagon Wheel, 2013 → 2023: 365 → 314. 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.