Photo: UtahStizzle · Public domain29% of Logan’s residents are college students
Measured by family income, Logan is behind 81% of U.S. towns. Logan grades C for jobs and income and A for walkability. About one in three work in Logan; the top destination outside it is North Logan (7%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Logan, in brief
A young workforce
42% of Logan’s working residents are 29 or younger, about one in three. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Logan 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.
Why Logan gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On family income, poverty and job access, Logan is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #107 of 119 in Utah. Job access by car holds Logan’s grade up (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns); family income pulls it down ($69,391, U.S. $99,999).
Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (25% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 15.4%, against 22.3% for all residents. Unemployment (2.6%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($69,391), since student households pull the household median down ($60,687).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Logan could be anywhere from C− to C+.
A place that makes things: 31% of Logan’s jobs are in goods
29,210 jobs are based in Logan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Logan, 2013 → 2023: 26,436 → 29,210. 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 Logan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 15 minutes in Logan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Logan workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 27,235 commuters (the 13% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Logan
On a workday 15,123 residents head out to work, 8,180 work right here, and 21,030 people come in from elsewhere.
About 61,000 people are in Logan on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.25 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.
Out of Logan to work: where people go
Where Logan clocks in
7% 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.
Miles to work from Logan
About 27% 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.
Logan is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Logan is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns, #10 of 119 in Utah. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 8.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 31,250 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). 4.1% of Logan households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Logan’s commuters take a bus or train.
700th of 786: where Logan ranks among U.S. towns of 39,000 to 75,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Syracuse UT | 39,909 | $133K | 4.8% | 1.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Draper UT | 50,652 | $129K | 6.1% | 2.4% | 14% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Riverton UT | 47,395 | $127K | 3.6% | 3.4% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 698 | St. Cloud MN | 72,647 | $61K | 20.2% | 6.0% | 44% | C |
| 699 | Burlington NC | 61,496 | $57K | 16.4% | 6.5% | 26% | C |
| 700 | Logan UT | 55,576 | $61K | 22.3% | 2.6% | 35% | C |
| 701 | Hallandale Beach FL | 42,698 | $52K | 19.6% | 7.5% | 7% | C |
| 702 | Lake Havasu City AZ | 59,358 | $70K | 14.1% | 5.0% | 52% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 786 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Logan, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
12% of Logan works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Logan workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logan | – | C | A | 15 min | $60,687 |
| Benson | under 2% | B− | C+ | 20 min | $93,194 |
| River Heights | under 2% | A | B | 16 min | $117,708 |
| Nibley | 1% | A | C+ | 18 min | $108,072 |
| North Logan | 7% | B+ | A | 15 min | $89,891 |
| Providence | 4% | A− | B+ | 18 min | $118,072 |
| Millville | under 2% | A− | B− | 18 min | $114,773 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to North Logan. Darker towns draw more of Logan’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.
- Students. 29% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Logan: questions
What is the median household income in Logan?
$60,687 (±$4,344) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Logan?
22.3% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 15.4%. Utah: 8.5%.
How long is the commute from Logan?
15 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Logan work?
35% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Logan (7%, 3 mi), Salt Lake City (5%, 67 mi), Providence (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Logan walkable?
Logan is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Logan without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Logan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Logan
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.