Ute Mountain Fire Tower · Photo: Lawrence A. Radcliffe · CC BY-SA 4.0How Manila works: jobs, income and commuting
About one in four work in Manila itself; outside it, Flaming Gorge draws the most (16%, 15 miles). Home is the office for 5% of workers (Utah 18%). Working residents average 19 minutes each way; Utah averages 22, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Manila for work, and who comes in
On a workday 98 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 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.
Where Manila goes to work
Where Manila clocks in
4% of workers
3% 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 kinds of work in Manila
147 jobs are based in Manila.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manila, 2013 → 2023: 90 → 147. 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 Manila’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Manila: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Manila workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 155 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far Manila’s workers travel
About 39% 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 Manila: questions
What is the median household income in Manila?
$78,000 (±$22,742) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manila?
2.7%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manila?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manila work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Flaming Gorge (16%, 15 mi), Salt Lake City (4%, 116 mi), Rock Springs (3%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Manila 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 Manila, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manila
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.