Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Kanab are higher than in 63% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 5.6% of residents, against 8.5% across Utah. Jobs and income earn Kanab B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. About half work in Kanab; the top destination outside it is Orderville (10%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Kanab stands out on work
Most jobs in Kanab go to people who live here
Of the 1,913 jobs based in Kanab, 59% are held by Kanab residents. In most towns, people from elsewhere hold most of the local jobs. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Kanab are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 22 across Utah. That’s about 54 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.
Kanab’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kanab is better than 45% of U.S. towns, #98 of 119 in Utah. The poverty rate holds Kanab’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kanab could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Who works in Kanab, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,183 residents head out to work, 1,135 work right here, and 778 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.
Time on the road from Kanab: about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kanab workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,874 commuters (the 22% 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.
Commuting out of Kanab: the destinations
Where Kanab clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
What the 1,913 jobs in Kanab are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kanab, 2013 → 2023: 1,507 → 1,913. 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 Kanab’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Kanab’s workers travel
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.
In Kanab, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kanab is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #105 of 119 in Utah. Both inputs place Kanab 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 2,390 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). 3.0% of Kanab households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kanab’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Kanab is 2,176th among 3,651 U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Fruit Heights UT | 5,952 | $141K | 3.9% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | West Bountiful UT | 5,931 | $135K | 3.7% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 219 | Snyderville UT | 5,948 | $144K | 4.6% | 1.3% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,174 | Luling TX | 5,920 | $55K | 10.0% | 2.7% | 15% | B− |
| 2,175 | Belfast ME | 6,988 | $68K | 16.0% | 0.6% | 46% | B− |
| 2,176 | Kanab UT | 5,332 | $85K | 5.6% | 4.7% | 49% | B− |
| 2,177 | Greenbrier AR | 6,645 | $57K | 10.1% | 3.3% | 11% | B− |
| 2,178 | Laureldale PA | 4,352 | $70K | 12.0% | 6.6% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,651 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Kanab, 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 Kanab: questions
What is the median household income in Kanab?
$85,486 (±$16,794) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kanab?
5.6%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kanab?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kanab work?
49% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orderville (10%, 18 mi), St. George (6%, 59 mi), Glendale (3%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kanab walkable?
Kanab is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kanab 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 Kanab, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kanab
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.