Photo: Allbillsnomoney · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Elwood commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Elwood has 159 jobs, and 526 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Elwood A−; getting around on foot earns it C. Measured by household income, Elwood is ahead of 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Elwood, in brief
Elwood and Tremonton trade workers both ways
Tremonton is the top workplace for Elwood residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Elwood come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Elwood is a place people come home to
There are 159 jobs based in Elwood, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Elwood has about 1,000 people in it, 27% 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 526 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Elwood earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Elwood is better than 75% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Elwood’s grade up (3.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (6.5%) is left out: Elwood’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, Elwood could be anywhere from B to A−.
15% of working residents work in Tremonton
Where Elwood clocks in
15% of workers
11% 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.
Who works in Elwood, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 520 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 153 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Elwood on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Jobs in Elwood: what the 159 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elwood, 2013 → 2023: 101 → 159. 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 Elwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Elwood: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elwood workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 708 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Elwood
About 26% 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.
Driving is how Elwood gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Elwood is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 785 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.7% of Elwood households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Elwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Elwood ranks: 798th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 143 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 288 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 297 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 796 | Hollenback Township PA | 1,184 | $89K | 4.1% | 13.0% | 1% | A− |
| 797 | Leon WI | 1,151 | $89K | 2.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A− |
| 798 | Elwood UT | 1,375 | $102K | 3.8% | 6.5% | 1% | A− |
| 799 | Belle WV | 1,088 | $77K | 3.3% | 10.6% | 1% | A− |
| 800 | Sarcoxie Township KS | 1,000 | $121K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Elwood, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Work next door: 15% of Elwood’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Elwood workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elwood | – | A− | C | 23 min | $101,771 |
| Deweyville | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Tremonton | 15% | C+ | C+ | 22 min | $74,741 |
| Honeyville | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $87,083 |
Same-state neighbors only. Deweyville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tremonton. Darker towns draw more of Elwood’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 Elwood: questions
What is the median household income in Elwood?
$101,771 (±$14,716) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elwood?
3.8%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elwood?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elwood work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tremonton (15%, 4 mi), Brigham City (11%, 12 mi), Ogden (6%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Elwood walkable?
Elwood is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Elwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Elwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elwood
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.