Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 4.0Work and commuting in Castle Dale
For jobs and income Castle Dale is better than 38% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (B+). Home is the office for 2% of workers; Utah has 18%. About one in five work in Castle Dale; the top destination outside it is Price (7%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Castle Dale
Castle Dale is where the jobs are
Castle Dale has 734 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% 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 ↓
Castle Dale has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Castle Dale went from 490 in 2013 to 734 in 2023, +50%. The jobs ↓
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 488 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Castle Dale gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Castle Dale’s grade up (8.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Castle Dale’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, Castle Dale could be anywhere from C− to B.
Who works in Castle Dale, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 395 residents head out to work, 93 work right here, and 641 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Castle Dale on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
How far it is to work from Castle Dale
About 40% 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.
Inside Castle Dale’s 734 jobs
734 jobs are based in Castle Dale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Castle Dale, 2013 → 2023: 490 → 734. 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 Castle Dale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Castle Dale live
Where Castle Dale clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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 long Castle Dale spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Castle Dale workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 543 commuters (the 2% 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.
In Castle Dale, the car does most of the work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 552 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). 2.0% of Castle Dale households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Castle Dale’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Castle Dale comes 2,839th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 153 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 317 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 328 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,837 | Greenwood Township PA | 1,908 | $68K | 9.6% | 2.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,838 | Moravian Falls NC | 1,285 | $48K | 5.4% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,839 | Castle Dale UT | 1,547 | $83K | 8.0% | 2.1% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,840 | Hilbert WI | 1,237 | $61K | 14.3% | 1.3% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,841 | Sharon WI | 1,550 | $68K | 12.2% | 4.0% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Castle Dale, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
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 Castle Dale: questions
What is the median household income in Castle Dale?
$82,958 (±$12,782) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Castle Dale?
8.0%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Castle Dale?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Castle Dale work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Price (7%, 29 mi), Huntington (7%, 8 mi), Orangeville (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Castle Dale walkable?
Castle Dale is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Castle Dale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Castle Dale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Castle Dale
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.