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Hildale grades D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, where Utah as a whole has 18%. Only 7% work in Hildale; the top destination outside it is Springdale (17%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Hildale in brief
Hildale makes and builds things
61% of the jobs based in Hildale are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hildale residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
46% of the jobs based in Hildale are held by workers 29 or younger, against 33% of Hildale’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Hildale than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Hildale fell from 848 in 2013 to 552 in 2023, −35%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 415 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Hildale’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hildale is better than 15% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Hildale’s grade up ($78,523, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (8.9%) is left out: Hildale’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, Hildale could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Hildale makes things: 61% of its jobs are in goods
552 jobs are based in Hildale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hildale, 2013 → 2023: 848 → 552. 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 Hildale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Hildale: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 384 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 521 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Hildale on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 per resident).
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 out of Hildale: the destinations
Where Hildale clocks in
16% of workers
10% 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 daily trip from Hildale: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hildale workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 602 commuters (the 2% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Hildale
About 16% 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.
Hildale is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hildale is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 617 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 Hildale households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hildale’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Hildale comes 4,079th 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 4,077 | Fennville MI | 1,724 | $59K | 24.9% | 3.4% | 4% | D |
| 4,078 | Gruetli-Laager TN | 1,786 | $47K | 10.2% | 8.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,079 | Hildale UT | 1,319 | $79K | 19.3% | 8.9% | 7% | D |
| 4,080 | Jackson Township IN | 1,731 | $50K | 10.5% | 7.3% | 5% | D |
| 4,081 | Buckeye Township KS | 1,142 | $69K | 19.5% | 2.7% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Hildale, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Hildale and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hildale workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hildale | – | D | C+ | 16 min | $78,523 |
| Apple Valley | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Apple Valley: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hildale’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 Hildale: questions
What is the median household income in Hildale?
$78,523 (±$76,580) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hildale?
19.3%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hildale?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hildale work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springdale (17%, 12 mi), St. George (16%, 32 mi), Hurricane (10%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hildale walkable?
Hildale is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hildale without a car?
0% 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 Hildale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hildale
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.