Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Morgan’s household incomes are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 1.4% of residents; Utah has 8.5%. Jobs and income earn Morgan A−; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in five work in Morgan itself; outside it, Salt Lake City draws the most (10%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Morgan apart
Morgan has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Morgan went from 747 in 2013 to 1,325 in 2023, +77%. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Morgan pay little
31% of the jobs based in Morgan pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 31% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Morgan’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Morgan is Salt Lake City, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (208) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The four measures behind Morgan’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Morgan is better than 83% of U.S. towns, #52 of 119 in Utah. The poverty rate holds Morgan’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Morgan could be anywhere from B to A.
Inside Morgan’s 1,325 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morgan, 2013 → 2023: 747 → 1,325. 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 Morgan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Morgan commutes
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 works in Morgan, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,635 residents head out to work, 369 work right here, and 956 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,900 people are in Morgan on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.66 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.
Where Morgan goes to work
Where Morgan clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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 trip to work from Morgan: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morgan workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,583 commuters (the 17% 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.
Morgan is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Morgan is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns, #75 of 119 in Utah. Both inputs place Morgan near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,913 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). 0.0% of Morgan households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Morgan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Morgan places 667th of 3,938 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Fruit Heights UT | 5,952 | $141K | 3.9% | 0.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | West Bountiful UT | 5,931 | $135K | 3.7% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 201 | Snyderville UT | 5,948 | $144K | 4.6% | 1.3% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 665 | Sandstone Township MI | 3,873 | $98K | 4.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A− |
| 666 | Keowee Key SC | 3,351 | $125K | 2.1% | 2.6% | 7% | A− |
| 667 | Morgan UT | 4,580 | $116K | 1.4% | 3.1% | 18% | A− |
| 668 | Green Township OH | 3,355 | $98K | 8.4% | 0.6% | 4% | A− |
| 669 | Lower Alsace Township PA | 4,886 | $76K | 5.8% | 2.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,938 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Morgan, 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 Morgan: questions
What is the median household income in Morgan?
$115,735 (±$14,916) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Morgan?
1.4%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morgan?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morgan work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salt Lake City (10%, 22 mi), Ogden (9%, 20 mi), Layton (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Morgan walkable?
Morgan is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Morgan 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 Morgan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morgan
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.