Photo: Ntsimp · Public domainMona has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns. Employers in Mona report 216 jobs, and 614 of its residents work somewhere. Mona grades B for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Mona, in brief
Mona and Nephi trade workers both ways
Nephi is the top workplace for Mona residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Mona come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Mona than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Mona fell from 301 in 2013 to 216 in 2023, −28%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Mona
26% of Mona workers work from home, against 18% across Utah. 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 614 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Mona: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Mona is better than 64% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mona’s grade up ($115,179, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Mona’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mona could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
17% of working residents work in Nephi
Where Mona clocks in
17% 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.
Goods, not services: 32% of the jobs in Mona
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mona, 2013 → 2023: 301 → 216. 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 Mona’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 27 minutes from Mona
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mona workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 592 commuters (the 26% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Mona
On a workday 597 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Mona on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mona
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.
Getting around Mona: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mona is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 796 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). 1.4% of Mona households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Mona’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,450th of 5,509: where Mona ranks among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 160 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 402 | Silver Summit UT | 1,476 | $242K | 6.8% | 6.4% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 410 | South Willard UT | 1,532 | $119K | 4.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,448 | Sylvan Springs AL | 1,600 | $82K | 10.7% | 3.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,449 | Hope IN | 2,181 | $76K | 8.9% | 1.9% | 8% | B |
| 1,450 | Mona UT | 1,964 | $115K | 5.7% | 1.0% | 3% | B |
| 1,451 | Bennington NH | 1,518 | $84K | 4.0% | 5.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,452 | Jefferson Township OH | 1,562 | $81K | 5.6% | 1.3% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Mona, 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 Mona: questions
What is the median household income in Mona?
$115,179 (±$29,003) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mona?
5.7%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mona?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mona work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nephi (17%, 7 mi), Rocky Ridge (7%, 8 mi), Provo (5%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mona walkable?
Mona is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mona without a car?
2% 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 Mona, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mona
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.