Lewiston Tithing Office and Granary · Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Lewiston has higher household incomes than 76% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Lewiston B+; getting around on foot earns it B. The poverty rate is 3.3%; Utah has 8.5%. Only 5% stay in Lewiston for work; outside it, Logan is the main destination (23%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Lewiston: the gist
Lewiston makes and builds things
61% of the jobs based in Lewiston are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lewiston residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Lewiston and Logan trade workers both ways
Logan is the top workplace for Lewiston residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Lewiston come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% 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 ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Lewiston: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lewiston is better than 68% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lewiston’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lewiston could be anywhere from B− to A.
Factories, building and farms: 61% of the jobs in Lewiston
645 jobs are based in Lewiston.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lewiston, 2013 → 2023: 563 → 645. 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 Lewiston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Lewiston: the destinations
Where Lewiston clocks in
23% of workers
6% 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.
The distance from Lewiston to work
About 32% 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.
Who works in Lewiston, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 994 residents head out to work, 57 work right here, and 588 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Lewiston on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.61 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 trip to work from Lewiston: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lewiston workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 923 commuters (the 15% 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.
Getting around Lewiston: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lewiston is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,080 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). 2.7% of Lewiston households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lewiston’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lewiston is 1,205th of 5,234 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 151 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 368 | Silver Summit UT | 1,476 | $242K | 6.8% | 6.4% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 376 | South Willard UT | 1,532 | $119K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,203 | Reinbeck IA | 1,668 | $87K | 4.4% | 3.4% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,204 | Campbellsport WI | 2,034 | $80K | 11.3% | 1.3% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,205 | Lewiston UT | 1,940 | $99K | 3.3% | 3.6% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,206 | Trempealeau WI | 1,889 | $79K | 6.7% | 2.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,207 | Liberty Township IN | 1,734 | $81K | 7.1% | 4.0% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | 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 Lewiston, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Work in the towns next to Lewiston
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lewiston workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewiston | – | B+ | B | 23 min | $98,583 |
| Cove | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Cornish | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cove and Cornish: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lewiston’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 Lewiston: questions
What is the median household income in Lewiston?
$98,583 (±$16,208) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lewiston?
3.3%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lewiston?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lewiston work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (23%, 16 mi), North Logan (6%, 14 mi), Richmond (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lewiston walkable?
Lewiston is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lewiston 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 Lewiston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lewiston
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.