Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Hyde Park has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are higher than in 85% of U.S. towns. Hyde Park has 1,496 jobs, and 2,632 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Hyde Park A−; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Hyde Park
Hyde Park has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Hyde Park went from 810 in 2013 to 1,496 in 2023, +85%. The jobs ↓
Hyde Park and Logan trade workers both ways
Logan is the top workplace for Hyde Park residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Hyde Park come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Hyde Park are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 22 across Utah. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Utah 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Hyde Park: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hyde Park is better than 78% of U.S. towns, #64 of 119 in Utah. The poverty rate holds Hyde Park’s grade up (1.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hyde Park could be anywhere from B to A.
Making and building: 32% of jobs based in Hyde Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hyde Park, 2013 → 2023: 810 → 1,496. 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 Hyde Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
29% of working residents work in Logan
Where Hyde Park clocks in
29% of workers
14% 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.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Utah
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hyde Park workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,071 commuters (the 16% 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.
Who commutes out of Hyde Park, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,547 residents head out to work, 85 work right here, and 1,411 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,700 people are in Hyde Park on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
How far Hyde Park goes to work
About 26% 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.
Most of Hyde Park commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hyde Park is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #98 of 119 in Utah. Both inputs place Hyde Park 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 2,465 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). 6.6% of Hyde Park households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Hyde Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Hyde Park ranks: 850th of 3,375 U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Fruit Heights UT | 5,952 | $141K | 3.9% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | West Bountiful UT | 5,931 | $135K | 3.7% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 196 | Snyderville UT | 5,948 | $144K | 4.6% | 1.3% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 848 | Bremen GA | 7,751 | $94K | 5.3% | 1.7% | 13% | A− |
| 849 | Kennett Square PA | 6,893 | $81K | 5.3% | 3.1% | 8% | A− |
| 850 | Hyde Park UT | 5,786 | $113K | 1.9% | 5.0% | 3% | A− |
| 851 | Raisinville Township MI | 6,136 | $90K | 3.9% | 3.2% | 2% | A− |
| 852 | Northfield Center Township OH | 5,596 | $97K | 1.0% | 7.7% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,375 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Hyde Park, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Next door is work for 14% of Hyde Park
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hyde Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde Park | – | A− | C+ | 16 min | $113,102 |
| North Logan | 14% | B+ | A | 15 min | $89,891 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to North Logan. Darker towns draw more of Hyde Park’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 Hyde Park: questions
What is the median household income in Hyde Park?
$113,102 (±$8,011) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hyde Park?
1.9%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hyde Park?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hyde Park work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (29%, 4 mi), North Logan (14%, 2 mi), Salt Lake City (5%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hyde Park walkable?
Hyde Park is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hyde Park without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hyde Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hyde Park
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.