Photo: Tedder · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and earnings in Milford, and the trip to work
About one in three work in Milford itself; outside it, Beaver draws the most (13%, 22 miles). Jobs and income earn Milford B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. For 8% of workers, the job is at home; Utah has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Milford: the figures worth knowing
Milford makes and builds things
67% of the jobs based in Milford are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Milford residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 40%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 ↓
The jobs in Milford pay better than its residents’ jobs
68% of the jobs based in Milford pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 51% of the jobs Milford residents hold. 65% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Milford. The jobs ↓
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 595 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Milford gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Milford is better than 53% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Milford’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Milford’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, Milford could be anywhere from C+ to B.
Goods, not services: 67% of the jobs in Milford
587 jobs are based in Milford.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milford, 2013 → 2023: 710 → 587. 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 Milford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Milford
About 31% 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 leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 390 residents head out to work, 205 work right here, and 382 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 (0.99 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.
Commuting out of Milford: the destinations
Where Milford clocks in
13% 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.
Getting to work from Milford takes about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milford workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 677 commuters (the 8% 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.
In Milford, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Milford is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 736 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). 3.4% of Milford households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milford’s commuters take a bus or train.
Milford is 1,838th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 143 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 288 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 297 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,836 | Roanoke IN | 1,811 | $71K | 10.9% | 3.9% | 2% | B− |
| 1,837 | Audubon Park NJ | 1,004 | $57K | 12.4% | 8.7% | 1% | B− |
| 1,838 | Milford UT | 1,401 | $82K | 2.3% | 2.3% | 34% | B− |
| 1,839 | Lewis Township IN | 1,333 | $82K | 3.9% | 3.1% | 1% | B− |
| 1,840 | Lewis NY | 1,239 | $82K | 3.2% | 2.1% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Milford, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
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 Milford: questions
What is the median household income in Milford?
$82,368 (±$11,109) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milford?
2.3%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milford?
14 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milford work?
34% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beaver (13%, 22 mi), Cedar City (8%, 49 mi), Minersville (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Milford walkable?
Milford is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 10.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milford 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 Milford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milford
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.