Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Echo commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Echo report 10 jobs, against 33 working residents. Hardly any work in Echo; the top destination outside it is Coalville (18%, 5 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 18% for Utah as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Echo on a workday
On a workday 33 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 60 people are in Echo on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 towns that employ Echo’s residents
Where Echo clocks in
18% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Most jobs in Echo are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Echo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Echo
of Echo workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 39 commuters (the 0% 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.
Miles to work from Echo
About 18% 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.
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 Echo: questions
What is the poverty rate in Echo?
8.4%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Echo work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coalville (18%, 5 mi), Morgan (6%, 13 mi), Ogden (6%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Echo 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 Echo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Echo
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.