Photo: An Errant Knight · CC BY-SA 4.0Kamas has lower unemployment (0.5%) than 97% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Kamas A−; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in seven stay in Kamas for work; outside it, Park City is the main destination (11%, 12 miles). Measured by household income, Kamas is ahead of 74% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Kamas
Kamas’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kamas is better than 80% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Kamas’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kamas could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
A place that makes things: 28% of Kamas’ jobs are in goods
1,349 jobs are based in Kamas.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kamas, 2013 → 2023: 688 → 1,349. 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 Kamas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Kamas
On a workday 845 residents head out to work, 171 work right here, and 1,178 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Kamas on a workday afternoon, 16% 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 Kamas: the destinations
Where Kamas clocks in
11% 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Kamas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kamas workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,057 commuters (the 12% 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.
How far Kamas goes to work
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.
Few in Kamas walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kamas is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Kamas 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 1,205 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.3% of Kamas households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Kamas’ commuters take a bus or train.
Kamas is 681st of 5,148 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 389 | South Willard UT | 1,532 | $119K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 399 | River Heights UT | 2,253 | $118K | 5.5% | 2.2% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 454 | Willard UT | 2,486 | $98K | 4.7% | 1.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 679 | Otis MA | 1,610 | $109K | 1.2% | 6.2% | 10% | A− |
| 680 | Lofall WA | 1,800 | $114K | 0.8% | 5.3% | <1% | A− |
| 681 | Kamas UT | 2,086 | $97K | 2.3% | 0.5% | 17% | A− |
| 682 | Cuba City WI | 2,103 | $75K | 2.1% | 0.4% | 9% | A− |
| 683 | Bel Air MD | 1,837 | $98K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | 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 Kamas, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Next door to Kamas
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kamas workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamas | – | A− | B | 24 min | $96,638 |
| Marion | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Marion: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kamas’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 Kamas: questions
What is the median household income in Kamas?
$96,638 (±$12,777) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kamas?
2.3%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kamas?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kamas work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Park City (11%, 12 mi), Salt Lake City (10%, 35 mi), Snyderville (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kamas walkable?
Kamas is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kamas without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kamas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kamas
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.