Mesa

City Commute Profile

Mesa, AZ

Where Mesa’s 234,500 resident workers go each day — 23.7% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Phoenix.

ArizonaLODES 2023 data
58
Commute Score

58 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Mesa at a glance
Employed Residents
234,500
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
16.8mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
23.7%
Share working within the area
Work from home
18.7%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Phoenix
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Mesa proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Mesa commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Mesa

234,500 commutes, one dot at a time

Mesa

Where 234,500 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Mesa, by worker count.

1Phoenix22.1 mi57,472
2Mesa0.0 mi55,684
3Tempe11.4 mi31,819
4Chandler10.6 mi19,005
5Scottsdale16.8 mi17,537
6Gilbert6.4 mi17,490
7Tucson95.5 mi2,689
8Glendale29.9 mi2,313

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Mesa.

1Mesa0.0 mi55,684
2Phoenix22.1 mi23,019
3Gilbert6.4 mi18,457
4Chandler10.6 mi12,491
5San Tan Valley17.7 mi7,667
6Tempe11.4 mi6,353
7Scottsdale16.8 mi5,305
8Queen Creek12.8 mi4,563

Top industries

The sectors that employ Mesa’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance19.3%
RTRetail Trade13.5%
AFAccommodation and Food Services10.9%
COConstruction8.0%
EDEducational Services7.8%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services7.1%
MFManufacturing7.0%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services5.0%
WSWholesale Trade3.4%

Mesa city profile

Who lives in Mesa — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
511,764
Median age
37.4yrs
Median household income
$82,752
Median home value
$408,000
Median gross rent
$1,620/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
32.5%
Poverty rate
10.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Mesa

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

13 providers · 6 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps58%
8 Gbps37%
See all internet providers in Mesa

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).