Photo: Danenlott · Public domainThere are 1.9 jobs in Duchesne for every working resident, and 666 people commute in
The two grades for Duchesne are C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Duchesne has 757 jobs for 408 working residents. About one in five work in Duchesne; the top destination outside it is Roosevelt (10%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Duchesne
Duchesne is where the jobs are
Duchesne has 757 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
46% 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 ↓
Duchesne’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Duchesne is Roosevelt, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (40) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 408 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Duchesne’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Duchesne is better than 20% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Duchesne’s grade up ($77,059, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Duchesne’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, Duchesne could be anywhere from D to C+.
Duchesne fills up on a workday
On a workday 317 residents head out to work and 91 work right here.
About 2,100 people are in Duchesne on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.9 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Duchesne
About 46% 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.
Where Duchesne’s workers come from
Where Duchesne clocks in
4% 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.
What Duchesne’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Duchesne, 2013 → 2023: 872 → 757. 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 Duchesne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Duchesne: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Duchesne workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 627 commuters (the 10% 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 Duchesne, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Duchesne is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 700 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). 0.0% of Duchesne households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Duchesne’s commuters take a bus or train.
Duchesne next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 4,101st of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 156 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 338 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 345 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,099 | Baxter TN | 2,128 | $59K | 20.5% | 0.8% | 2% | C− |
| 4,100 | Marfa TX | 1,574 | $44K | 26.9% | 0.0% | 45% | C− |
| 4,101 | Duchesne UT | 1,722 | $77K | 14.5% | 4.1% | 22% | C− |
| 4,102 | Johnston Township OH | 1,718 | $61K | 28.4% | 4.1% | 4% | C− |
| 4,103 | Susquehanna Township PA | 1,840 | $52K | 10.3% | 4.7% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Duchesne, 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 Duchesne: questions
What is the median household income in Duchesne?
$77,059 (±$13,644) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Duchesne?
14.5%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Duchesne?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Duchesne work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roosevelt (10%, 23 mi), Salt Lake City (4%, 91 mi), West Valley City (2%, 92 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Duchesne walkable?
Duchesne is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Duchesne without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Duchesne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Duchesne
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.