Photo: Localdistrict · CC BY-SA 4.0Hideout has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
56 jobs are based in Hideout for 453 working residents. Hideout grades C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Hideout apart on work
Hideout is a place people come home to
There are 56 jobs based in Hideout, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hideout has about 1,200 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Hideout works from home
29% of Hideout 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 453 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Hideout’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hideout is better than 23% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Hideout’s grade up ($98,929, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Hideout’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, Hideout could be anywhere from D to B.
Who commutes out of Hideout, and who commutes in
On a workday 452 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Hideout on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Commuting from Hideout: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hideout workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 499 commuters (the 29% 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.
23% of working residents work in Park City
Where Hideout clocks in
23% of workers
13% 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.
Making and building: 29% of jobs based in Hideout
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hideout, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 56. 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 Hideout’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Hideout’s workers travel
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 trips from Hideout start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hideout is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.9% 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 699 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). 0.0% of Hideout households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Hideout’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hideout places 3,852nd of 5,794 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 153 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 317 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 328 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,850 | Deshler OH | 1,576 | $64K | 14.0% | 5.7% | 7% | C− |
| 3,851 | East Pittsburgh PA | 1,835 | $39K | 45.4% | 2.8% | 2% | C− |
| 3,852 | Hideout UT | 1,587 | $99K | 19.9% | 0.8% | <1% | C− |
| 3,853 | Elroy WI | 1,255 | $58K | 10.1% | 0.7% | 10% | C− |
| 3,854 | Big Pine CA | 1,615 | $68K | 9.1% | 3.2% | 7% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Hideout, 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 Hideout: questions
What is the median household income in Hideout?
$98,929 (±$29,339) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hideout?
19.9%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hideout?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hideout work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Park City (23%, 5 mi), Salt Lake City (13%, 29 mi), Snyderville (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hideout walkable?
Hideout is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hideout without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hideout, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hideout
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.