La Sal has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
For 55% of workers, the job is at home, next to 18% for Utah as a whole. La Sal has 27 jobs, against 97 working residents. Only 2% work in La Sal itself; outside it, Monticello draws the most (23%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in La Sal, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 95 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 25 people come in from elsewhere.
About 300 people are in La Sal on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Where La Sal goes to work
Where La Sal clocks in
23% of workers
22% of workers
12% 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.
La Sal makes things: 56% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 La Sal’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in La Sal
of La Sal workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 59 commuters (the 55% 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.
Where in the region La Sal works
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.
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 La Sal: questions
What is the poverty rate in La Sal?
0.0%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in La Sal work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monticello (23%, 30 mi), Moab (22%, 24 mi), Blanding (12%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around La Sal without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from La Sal, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Sal
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.