Enterprise has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
About one in seven work in Enterprise itself; outside it, St. George draws the most (40%, 35 miles). Enterprise has 385 jobs, and 717 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Enterprise is better than 58% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Enterprise, in a few figures
40% of Enterprise works in St. George
285 working residents, 40%, have their main job in St. George, 35 miles away. That’s 3 times as many as work in Enterprise itself. The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Enterprise pay little
35% of the jobs based in Enterprise pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 37% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Enterprise workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 22 across Utah. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 717 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Enterprise
The poverty rate holds Enterprise’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Enterprise’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, Enterprise could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Where Enterprise goes to work
Where Enterprise clocks in
40% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Enterprise
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Enterprise, 2013 → 2023: 285 → 385. 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 Enterprise’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes each way for Enterprise’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Enterprise workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 582 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.
Enterprise on a workday afternoon
On a workday 623 residents head out to work, 94 work right here, and 291 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Enterprise on a workday afternoon, 14% 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.
How many miles Enterprise commutes
About 20% 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.
Most of Enterprise commutes by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 649 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). 4.5% of Enterprise households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Enterprise’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,849th of 5,207: where Enterprise ranks among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Lake Point UT | 2,947 | $137K | 2.0% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 406 | Richmond UT | 3,130 | $110K | 1.0% | 0.8% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 437 | River Heights UT | 2,253 | $118K | 5.5% | 2.2% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,847 | Chester Township MI | 1,770 | $74K | 7.3% | 2.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,848 | Washington Township PA | 2,133 | $81K | 13.7% | 0.5% | 13% | B |
| 1,849 | Enterprise UT | 2,445 | $91K | 2.4% | 1.6% | 13% | B |
| 1,850 | Springvale Township MI | 2,122 | $102K | 3.2% | 4.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,851 | Genoa NY | 1,782 | $93K | 6.6% | 1.2% | 10% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Enterprise, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
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 Enterprise: questions
What is the median household income in Enterprise?
$91,250 (±$17,432) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Enterprise?
2.4%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Enterprise?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Enterprise work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. George (40%, 35 mi), Cedar City (7%, 36 mi), Hurricane (4%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Enterprise walkable?
Enterprise is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Enterprise without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Enterprise, from the people who make the trip.
More of Enterprise
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.