98% of White Mountain Lake’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave White Mountain Lake for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Show Low (29%), Phoenix (7%) and Pinetop-Lakeside (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.
What kind of work town is White Mountain Lake?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
29% of working residents work in Show Low
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where White Mountain Lake clocks in
29% of workers
7% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
29% of White Mountain Lake works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Show Low (29%). Darker towns draw more of White Mountain Lake’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
About 38 minutes each way, longer than most of Arizona
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of White Mountain Lake workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
White Mountain Lake quiets down on a workday
On a workday 711 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 76 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in White Mountain Lake on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.12 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of White Mountain Lake commutes less than 14 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 34% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
White Mountain Lake makes things: 41% of its jobs are in goods
87 jobs are based in White Mountain Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs White Mountain Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in White Mountain Lake, 2013 → 2023: 82 → 87. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of White Mountain Lake
Commuter talk
Getting to work from White Mountain Lake, from the people who make the trip.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.