Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Mendon earn more than those in 95% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 1.5%, next to 8.5% for Utah as a whole. For jobs and income Mendon is better than 88% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (B−). Hardly any work in Mendon; the top destination outside it is Logan (26%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mendon stands out on work
Jobs & income in Mendon: the grade in detail
The poverty rate holds Mendon’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Mendon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mendon could be anywhere from A− to A.
Out of Mendon to work: where people go
Where Mendon clocks in
26% of workers
6% 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.
Mendon quiets down on a workday
On a workday 627 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 213 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Mendon on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than live here.
0.34 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.
Inside Mendon’s 217 jobs
217 jobs are based in Mendon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mendon, 2013 → 2023: 122 → 217. 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 Mendon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Mendon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mendon workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 610 commuters (the 20% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Mendon
About 25% 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.
In Mendon, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 759 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). 0.7% of Mendon households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mendon’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Mendon ranks: 287th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 130 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 253 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 262 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 285 | Silver Summit UT | 1,476 | $242K | 6.8% | 6.4% | 3% | A |
| 286 | Luckey OH | 1,017 | $91K | 2.8% | 0.5% | <1% | A |
| 287 | Mendon UT | 1,326 | $148K | 1.5% | 0.8% | 1% | A |
| 288 | Kasota Township MN | 1,621 | $120K | 2.3% | 2.6% | 3% | A |
| 289 | South Willard UT | 1,532 | $119K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Mendon, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Around Mendon: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mendon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendon | – | A | B− | 25 min | $148,261 |
| Peter | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Peter: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mendon’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 Mendon: questions
What is the median household income in Mendon?
$148,261 (±$29,797) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mendon?
1.5%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mendon?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mendon work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (26%, 7 mi), North Logan (6%, 10 mi), Salt Lake City (5%, 65 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mendon walkable?
Mendon is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mendon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mendon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mendon
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.