Photo: The original uploader was Talshiarr at English Wikipedia. · Public domainHouseholds in Moroni have lower incomes than those in 65% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Moroni D; getting around on foot earns it C. 21.0% of residents are in poverty (Utah 8.5%). About one in seven stay in Moroni for work; outside it, Mount Pleasant is the main destination (7%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Moroni, in brief
Moroni is where the jobs are
Moroni has 753 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% 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 ↓
Moroni makes and builds things
53% of the jobs based in Moroni are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Moroni residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 35%. 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 478 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Moroni gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Moroni is better than 8% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Moroni’s grade up ($65,833, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.0%) is left out: Moroni’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, Moroni could be anywhere from D− to B.
How a workday changes Moroni
On a workday 404 residents head out to work, 74 work right here, and 679 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Moroni on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Moroni’s commute, mile by mile
About 40% 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.
A place that makes things: 53% of Moroni’s jobs are in goods
753 jobs are based in Moroni.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moroni, 2013 → 2023: 456 → 753. 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 Moroni’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Moroni’s workforce comes from
Where Moroni clocks in
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.
The trip to work from Moroni: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moroni workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 557 commuters (the 10% 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 commute in Moroni is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moroni is more walkable than 28% 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 621 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). 2.6% of Moroni households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moroni’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Moroni comes 4,941st on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 156 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 338 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 345 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,939 | Chrisman IL | 1,263 | $58K | 18.0% | 7.1% | 11% | D |
| 4,940 | White Hall IL | 2,159 | $55K | 17.3% | 5.1% | 14% | D |
| 4,941 | Moroni UT | 1,710 | $66K | 21.0% | 9.0% | 15% | D |
| 4,942 | Chippewa Township MI | 1,285 | $59K | 15.2% | 3.2% | <1% | D |
| 4,943 | Evart Township MI | 1,366 | $48K | 12.0% | 15.7% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Moroni, 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 Moroni: questions
What is the median household income in Moroni?
$65,833 (±$18,114) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moroni?
21.0%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moroni?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moroni work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Pleasant (7%, 7 mi), Fountain Green (5%, 8 mi), Provo (5%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moroni walkable?
Moroni is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moroni 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 Moroni, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moroni
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.