Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0For more than half of its working residents, Ivins is a commute to St. George
The average commute takes 18 minutes each way; Utah averages 22, the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Ivins C; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in ten work in Ivins itself; outside it, St. George draws the most (52%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Ivins in brief
Ivins has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Ivins went from 976 in 2013 to 1,642 in 2023, +68%. The jobs ↓
Most Ivins residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
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.
Why Ivins gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Ivins is better than 31% of U.S. towns, #104 of 119 in Utah. Household income holds Ivins’ grade up ($78,089, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.7%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ivins could be anywhere from C− to B.
What Ivins’ employers do
1,642 jobs are based in Ivins.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ivins, 2013 → 2023: 976 → 1,642. 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 Ivins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Ivins’ commute, mile by mile
About 20% 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.
Who works in Ivins, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 3,176 residents head out to work, 357 work right here, and 1,285 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,700 people are in Ivins on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
Out of Ivins to work: where people go
Where Ivins clocks in
52% of workers
5% 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.
The daily trip from Ivins: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ivins workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,923 commuters (the 21% 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.
Getting around Ivins: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ivins is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns, #77 of 119 in Utah. Both inputs place Ivins 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 3,701 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). 2.1% of Ivins households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Ivins’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ivins next to U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000: 2,083rd of 2,695 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | South Weber UT | 8,218 | $139K | 2.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | West Point UT | 13,058 | $121K | 1.6% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 162 | Plain City UT | 9,256 | $133K | 2.6% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,081 | Anderson Creek NC | 13,927 | $87K | 14.6% | 7.1% | 4% | C |
| 2,082 | Newton NJ | 8,486 | $76K | 15.1% | 9.9% | 14% | C |
| 2,083 | Ivins UT | 11,546 | $78K | 11.8% | 6.7% | 10% | C |
| 2,084 | Markham IL | 11,274 | $57K | 18.0% | 8.7% | 4% | C |
| 2,085 | Ravenna OH | 11,136 | $60K | 19.1% | 6.0% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Ivins, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Work next door: 56% of Ivins’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ivins workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivins | – | C | B | 18 min | $78,089 |
| St. George | 52% | B− | B+ | 17 min | $76,508 |
| Santa Clara | 4% | A− | C+ | 19 min | $96,475 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to St. George. Darker towns draw more of Ivins’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 Ivins: questions
What is the median household income in Ivins?
$78,089 (±$12,344) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ivins?
11.8%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ivins?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ivins work?
10% work in town.
Is Ivins walkable?
Ivins is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ivins without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ivins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ivins
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.