Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Fairview trail those of 64% of U.S. towns
Only 7% work in Fairview; the top destination outside it is Mount Pleasant (18%, 6 miles). 11.1% of residents are in poverty, against 8.5% across Utah. Fairview grades C− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Fairview in brief
Fairview and Mount Pleasant trade workers both ways
Mount Pleasant is the top workplace for Fairview residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Fairview come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
33% of the jobs based in Fairview are held by workers 29 or younger, against 26% of Fairview’s own working residents. 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; with 506 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Fairview
The poverty rate holds Fairview’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Fairview’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fairview could be anywhere from D− to B.
Where Fairview goes to work
Where Fairview clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
Miles to work from Fairview
About 31% 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 the 312 jobs in Fairview are
312 jobs are based in Fairview.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairview, 2013 → 2023: 198 → 312. 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 Fairview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Fairview by day and by night
On a workday 471 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 277 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Fairview on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.62 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.
The daily trip from Fairview: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairview workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 611 commuters (the 17% 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.
For most of Fairview, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fairview is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 735 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). 1.5% of Fairview households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fairview’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Fairview comes 3,849th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 130 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 253 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 262 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,847 | New Waverly TX | 1,031 | $48K | 22.2% | 10.2% | 8% | C− |
| 3,848 | Baird TX | 1,532 | $51K | 12.7% | 2.3% | 10% | C− |
| 3,849 | Fairview UT | 1,328 | $66K | 11.1% | 2.9% | 7% | C− |
| 3,850 | Maple River Township MI | 1,279 | $72K | 15.8% | 3.0% | 1% | C− |
| 3,851 | Jonesfield Township MI | 1,593 | $60K | 20.3% | 17.4% | 7% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Fairview, 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 Fairview: questions
What is the median household income in Fairview?
$66,442 (±$26,075) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fairview?
11.1%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairview?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fairview work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Pleasant (18%, 6 mi), Provo (6%, 44 mi), Moroni (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fairview walkable?
Fairview is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fairview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fairview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairview
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.