Photo: Marykdan · CC BY-SA 4.0Levan has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Hardly any stay in Levan for work; outside it, Nephi is the main destination (15%, 10 miles). Levan has 86 jobs for 293 working residents. Working residents average 32 minutes each way (Utah 22, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Levan apart on work
Levan and Nephi trade workers both ways
Nephi is the top workplace for Levan residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Levan come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Levan is a place people come home to
There are 86 jobs based in Levan, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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; with 293 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Levan goes to work
Where Levan clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
How far Levan’s workers travel
About 41% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Levan
On a workday 291 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 84 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Levan on a workday afternoon, 22% 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 kinds of work in Levan
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Levan, 2013 → 2023: 98 → 86. 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 Levan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes each way for Levan’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Levan workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 262 commuters (the 18% 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.
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 Levan: questions
What is the median household income in Levan?
$82,969 (±$8,285) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Levan?
13.6%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Levan?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Levan work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nephi (15%, 10 mi), Provo (8%, 49 mi), Spanish Fork (6%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Levan without a car?
0% 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 Levan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Levan
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.