For about half of its working residents, Enoch is a commute to Cedar City
Enoch grades B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Home is the office for 10% of workers (Utah 18%). Household incomes here are higher than in 57% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Enoch, in a few figures
Enoch has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Enoch went from 467 in 2013 to 792 in 2023, +70%. The jobs ↓
Enoch is a place people come home to
There are 792 jobs based in Enoch, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Enoch has about 5,900 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Enoch’s working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 24 minutes, longer than the Utah average of 22. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Enoch pay little
28% of the jobs based in Enoch pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 30% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Enoch
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Enoch is better than 61% of U.S. towns, #88 of 119 in Utah. The poverty rate holds Enoch’s grade up (1.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Enoch could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Out of Enoch to work: where people go
Where Enoch clocks in
10% of workers
3% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 35% of the jobs in Enoch
792 jobs are based in Enoch.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Enoch, 2013 → 2023: 467 → 792. 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 Enoch’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Enoch: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,511 residents head out to work, 205 work right here, and 587 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,900 people are in Enoch on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
0.21 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.
From Enoch, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Enoch workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,101 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Enoch
About 32% 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.
Getting around Enoch: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Enoch is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #99 of 119 in Utah. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,435 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). 2.6% of Enoch households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Enoch’s commuters take a bus or train.
Enoch next to U.S. towns of 6,200 to 11,900: 1,389th of 2,878 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | South Weber UT | 8,218 | $139K | 2.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Plain City UT | 9,256 | $133K | 2.6% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Stansbury Park UT | 11,242 | $127K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,387 | Providence Township PA | 7,482 | $64K | 5.5% | 3.5% | 6% | B |
| 1,388 | Marysville MI | 9,868 | $67K | 6.4% | 3.4% | 12% | B |
| 1,389 | Enoch UT | 8,847 | $81K | 1.5% | 3.8% | 6% | B |
| 1,390 | Jerseyville IL | 8,409 | $74K | 12.3% | 0.4% | 22% | B |
| 1,391 | Sellersburg IN | 10,305 | $72K | 6.9% | 5.5% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Enoch, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Next door is work for 46% of Enoch
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Enoch workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enoch | – | B | C+ | 24 min | $80,750 |
| Cedar City | 46% | C− | A− | 13 min | $63,589 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Cedar City. Darker towns draw more of Enoch’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 Enoch: questions
What is the median household income in Enoch?
$80,750 (±$13,212) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Enoch?
1.5%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Enoch?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Enoch work?
6% work in town.
Is Enoch walkable?
Enoch is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Enoch without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Enoch, from the people who make the trip.
More of Enoch
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.