Mountain Dell Dam · Photo: Historic American Engineering Record. Survey number HAER UTAH,18-SALCI,22-17 · Public domainEmigration Canyon has higher household incomes than 98% of U.S. towns
28% of workers have no commute at all, where Utah as a whole has 18%. 2.7% of residents live below the poverty line; Utah has 8.5%. The two grades for Emigration Canyon are A+ for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Emigration Canyon in brief
Nearly half of Emigration Canyon works in Salt Lake City
305 working residents, 45%, have their main job in Salt Lake City, 9.8 miles away across the town line. That’s 45 times as many as work in Emigration Canyon itself. The commute map ↓
Emigration Canyon is a place people come home to
There are 102 jobs based in Emigration Canyon, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Emigration Canyon has about 840 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Emigration Canyon works from home
28% of Emigration Canyon workers work from home, against 18% across Utah. Time on the road ↓
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 676 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Emigration Canyon
On income, poverty and job access, Emigration Canyon is better than 96% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($190,833, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 62% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Emigration Canyon’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, Emigration Canyon could be anywhere from A to A+.
45% of working residents work in Salt Lake City
Where Emigration Canyon clocks in
45% 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 many people are in Emigration Canyon by day
On a workday 667 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 93 people come in from elsewhere.
About 840 people are in Emigration Canyon on a workday afternoon, 41% fewer than live here.
0.15 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Time on the road from Emigration Canyon: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Emigration Canyon workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 571 commuters (the 28% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Emigration Canyon
102 jobs are based in Emigration Canyon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Emigration Canyon, 2013 → 2023: 164 → 102. 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 Emigration Canyon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Emigration Canyon works
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.
In Emigration Canyon, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Emigration Canyon is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 797 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 2.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 68% 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). 0.9% of Emigration Canyon households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Emigration Canyon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Emigration Canyon next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 143rd of 5,877 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 141 | Dunlap IL | 1,588 | $142K | 3.3% | 2.4% | 7% | A+ |
| 142 | Island Heights NJ | 1,731 | $109K | 1.5% | 2.6% | 8% | A+ |
| 143 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 144 | Westfield Center OH | 1,217 | $110K | 2.7% | 5.0% | 3% | A+ |
| 145 | Burlington Township IL | 1,780 | $124K | 3.9% | 1.6% | 5% | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 304 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 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 Emigration Canyon, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Work next door: 45% of Emigration Canyon’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Emigration Canyon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emigration Canyon | – | A+ | D | 24 min | $190,833 |
| Salt Lake City | 45% | B | A+ | 20 min | $75,090 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Salt Lake City. Darker towns draw more of Emigration Canyon’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 Emigration Canyon: questions
What is the median household income in Emigration Canyon?
$190,833 (±$27,736) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Emigration Canyon?
2.7%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Emigration Canyon?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Emigration Canyon work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salt Lake City (45%, 10 mi), West Valley City (5%, 16 mi), Murray (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Emigration Canyon walkable?
Emigration Canyon is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Emigration Canyon 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 Emigration Canyon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Emigration Canyon
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.