Minersville City Hall · Photo: Ntsimp · CC0Most of Minersville commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
About one in ten stay in Minersville for work; outside it, Milford is the main destination (28%, 10 miles). 124 jobs are based in Minersville, against 303 working residents. Home is the office for 2% of workers, next to 18% for Utah as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Minersville, in brief
Minersville and Milford trade workers both ways
Milford is the top workplace for Minersville residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Minersville come from (34% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Minersville workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 18% across Utah. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 303 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The towns that employ Minersville’s residents
Where Minersville clocks in
28% of workers
14% 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.
From Minersville, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Minersville workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 337 commuters (the 1% 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.
Who works in Minersville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 278 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 99 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Minersville on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
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 kinds of work in Minersville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Minersville, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 124. 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 Minersville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Minersville
About 29% 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 Minersville: questions
What is the median household income in Minersville?
$73,750 (±$9,616) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Minersville?
10.3%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Minersville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Minersville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milford (28%, 10 mi), Beaver (14%, 19 mi), Cedar City (7%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Minersville without a car?
2% 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 Minersville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Minersville
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.