Elberta has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any stay in Elberta for work; outside it, Provo is the main destination (11%, 26 miles). There are 3 jobs in Elberta; 76 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Utah has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Elberta, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 76 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 97 people are in Elberta on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Where Elberta goes to work
Where Elberta clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Elberta
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elberta, 2013 → 2023: 5 → 3. 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 Elberta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Elberta takes about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elberta workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 100 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.
How far it is to work from Elberta
About 17% 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 Elberta: questions
What is the poverty rate in Elberta?
0.0%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elberta?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elberta work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Provo (11%, 26 mi), Springville (9%, 23 mi), Spanish Fork (9%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Elberta 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 Elberta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elberta
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.