Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 4.0Earning a living in Huntington
About one in ten stay in Huntington for work; outside it, Price is the main destination (12%, 21 miles). Jobs and income earn Huntington C−; getting around on foot earns it B−. 3% of workers work from home (Utah 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Huntington at work: what stands out
A big share show a job far from home
46% 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 ↓
Few Huntington workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 18% across Utah. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Huntington pay little
27% of the jobs based in Huntington pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. 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 634 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Huntington gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Huntington is better than 24% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Huntington’s grade up ($76,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.8%) is left out: Huntington’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, Huntington could be anywhere from D to B−.
Near or far: the trip to work from Huntington
About 46% 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.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Huntington
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Huntington workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 879 commuters (the 3% 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.
Jobs in Huntington: what the 529 are
529 jobs are based in Huntington.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Huntington, 2013 → 2023: 533 → 529. 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 Huntington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Huntington, and who commutes in
On a workday 566 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 461 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 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 Huntington: the destinations
Where Huntington clocks in
6% 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.
Most of Huntington commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Huntington is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Huntington near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 908 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). 3.3% of Huntington households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Huntington’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Huntington is 3,809th among 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 160 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 402 | Silver Summit UT | 1,476 | $242K | 6.8% | 6.4% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 410 | South Willard UT | 1,532 | $119K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,807 | Drumright OK | 2,546 | $46K | 24.7% | 2.4% | 16% | C− |
| 3,808 | Bertram TX | 2,142 | $63K | 19.7% | 2.7% | 2% | C− |
| 3,809 | Huntington UT | 1,986 | $77K | 12.0% | 7.8% | 11% | C− |
| 3,810 | New Lisbon WI | 2,577 | $71K | 16.4% | 7.5% | 14% | C− |
| 3,811 | Nevins Township IN | 1,825 | $66K | 13.0% | 9.6% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | 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 Huntington, 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 Huntington: questions
What is the median household income in Huntington?
$76,500 (±$20,049) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Huntington?
12.0%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Huntington?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Huntington work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Price (12%, 21 mi), Castle Dale (6%, 8 mi), Salt Lake City (4%, 112 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Huntington walkable?
Huntington is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Huntington without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Huntington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Huntington
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.