Most of Lapoint commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers, next to 18% for Utah as a whole. Lapoint has 28 jobs for 61 working residents. Hardly any stay in Lapoint for work; outside it, Roosevelt is the main destination (23%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Lapoint
On a workday 61 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 28 people come in from elsewhere.
About 89 people are in Lapoint on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
The towns that employ Lapoint’s residents
Where Lapoint clocks in
10% 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.
32% of the jobs in Lapoint make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lapoint, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 28. 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 Lapoint’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Lapoint: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lapoint workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 71 commuters (the 28% 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 Lapoint works
About 28% 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 Lapoint: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lapoint?
0.0%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lapoint?
30 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lapoint work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roosevelt (23%, 13 mi), Vernal (10%, 14 mi), North Salt Lake (5%, 115 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lapoint without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 23% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lapoint, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lapoint
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.