Tintic Standard Reduction Mill · Photo: DT Brimhall · CC BY-SA 3.0Genola has higher household incomes than 91% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers; Utah has 18%. Below the poverty line: 10.3% of residents (Utah 8.5%). Genola grades B 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
Genola and work: the main findings
Genola makes and builds things
73% of the jobs based in Genola are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Genola residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
Genola workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 22 across Utah. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 54 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 736 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Genola’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Genola is better than 61% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Genola’s grade up ($126,667, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.2%) is left out: Genola’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, Genola could be anywhere from C to A.
In Genola, 73% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
341 jobs are based in Genola.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Genola, 2013 → 2023: 120 → 341. 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 Genola’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Genola: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Genola workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 730 commuters (the 7% 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.
Genola quiets down on a workday
On a workday 703 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 308 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Genola on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.46 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.
9% of working residents work in Provo
Where Genola clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
Where in the region Genola works
About 17% 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.
In Genola, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Genola is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 783 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). 1.4% of Genola households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Genola’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,381 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200, Genola comes 1,445th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 144 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 313 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 320 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,443 | Great Bend Township KS | 1,397 | $103K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,444 | Richmond MA | 1,400 | $106K | 7.3% | 2.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,445 | Genola UT | 1,660 | $127K | 10.3% | 0.2% | 4% | B |
| 1,446 | Star Valley Ranch WY | 2,074 | $96K | 2.0% | 1.3% | 5% | B |
| 1,447 | Oconto WI | 1,398 | $93K | 7.3% | 1.2% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Genola, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
The towns around Genola
The biggest share goes to Santaquin (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Genola workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genola | – | B | C+ | 29 min | $126,667 |
| West Mountain | under 4% | A | D | 25 min | $111,791 |
| Santaquin | 5% | A− | C+ | 27 min | $99,837 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Genola’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 Genola: questions
What is the median household income in Genola?
$126,667 (±$32,290) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Genola?
10.3%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Genola?
29 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Genola work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Provo (9%, 19 mi), Spanish Fork (9%, 13 mi), Salt Lake City (8%, 53 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Genola walkable?
Genola is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Genola without a car?
1% 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 Genola, from the people who make the trip.
More of Genola
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.