Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Carbonville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers (Utah 18%). Employers in Carbonville report 178 jobs for 649 working residents. For jobs and income Carbonville is better than 44% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Carbonville: the gist
Carbonville and Price trade workers both ways
Price is the top workplace for Carbonville residents (37%) and also where the most people who work in Carbonville come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Carbonville is a place people come home to
There are 178 jobs based in Carbonville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Carbonville has about 1,200 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 649 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Carbonville’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Carbonville’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Carbonville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Carbonville could be anywhere from C to B.
37% of working residents work in Price
Where Carbonville clocks in
5% of workers
2% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
How far Carbonville’s workers travel
About 41% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The workday shuffle in and out of Carbonville
On a workday 643 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 172 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Carbonville on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Carbonville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carbonville, 2013 → 2023: 252 → 178. 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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Carbonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 10 minutes in Carbonville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carbonville workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 747 commuters (the 1% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Few in Carbonville walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 751 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.2% of Carbonville households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Carbonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Carbonville is 2,617th among 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 163 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 338 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 349 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,615 | Woodstock NH | 1,439 | $86K | 6.2% | 1.7% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,616 | Franklin Township OH | 1,716 | $48K | 4.5% | 18.5% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,617 | Carbonville UT | 1,636 | $67K | 4.1% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,618 | Otterbein IN | 1,139 | $64K | 8.8% | 3.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,619 | Dravosburg PA | 1,536 | $52K | 12.3% | 4.4% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Carbonville, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Bordering towns draw 39% of Carbonville’s workers
The biggest share goes to Price (37%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Carbonville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbonville | – | C+ | C | 10 min | $67,193 |
| Spring Glen | under 2% | D− | D− | 15 min | $52,386 |
| Price | 37% | D | B | 16 min | $53,203 |
| West Wood | 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. West Wood: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Carbonville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Carbonville: questions
What is the median household income in Carbonville?
$67,193 (±$7,447) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carbonville?
4.1%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carbonville?
10 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carbonville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Price (37%, 2 mi), Salt Lake City (5%, 98 mi), Wellington (2%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carbonville walkable?
Carbonville is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carbonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carbonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carbonville
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.